Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie premiéres and Hollywood cocktail parties, gets invited to the Library of Congress to give poetry readings, has built a swimming pool at his South Pasadena home, and relishes reading about himself in the gossip columns. Best of all, he is now financially able to relax during his vacations, instead of teaching at night school or summer school to make ends meet...
...reserve books from Lamont's Desk Three to the usual run of papers and personal articles, the doctors objected. "Life and Look are what patients should read," they claimed, "not library books. We don't want the students to worry about their studies, for Stillman is a place to relax." And so, after Lamont officials had agreed to release the books, PBH was forced to give up the service...
...engineer, works at the Harcourt Mill. The Harcourts are a fine old feudal Yankee clan, and they soon inspire young Willis with the desire to be something he is not. He imitates their manners and their games, even buys (secondhand) their kind of clothes. But he can never really relax with them-not even when he takes to the woods with Bess Harcourt, the boss's beautiful, blonde granddaughter...
...Except for Malenkov, Khrushchev and Voroshilov, all the Soviet leaders were there, rubbing shoulders with several hundred foreign diplomats and newsmen. In a corner of the ornate reception room, Politburocrats matched toasts with the ambassadors of Britain, France, Red China and the U.S., and for once vodka seemed to relax the occupationally tight-mouthed...
...will cut his concerts to 30 a year. Says he: "I want to have time for things that are important to me." Among the most important: jazz. This spring he plans to form his own jazz combo in Vienna. Also, Gulda thinks that it may be time to relax a bit. "With my 25th birthday coming up," he says solemnly, "I consider my youth finished." Perhaps the next time he plays in Carnegie Hall he will even play more slowly...