Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Eisenhower has never been one to be content with the clarity of immediacy. When he wants to rub a peephole in the steamy window looking out on the nation's future, he concedes that he himself is no expert on the future, and appoints a committee to do the rubbing...
...doors-and-tennis-rackets comedy that has long been the West End's mirror of English life, Joan Littlewood likes to fill her theater with the smell of cold porridge and soft coal. her stage with people of small means and great imagination. She likes her characters to rub hips with spivs, tarts, pansies and drunks, in whose vernacular a whore is a brass and a pimp is a ponce (one song in Fings Ain't What They Used to Be is called The Student Ponce). But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams...
...Kennedy can pile up a margin of more than 900,000 downstate, Nixon will have to win over 60 per cent of the rest of the state. And there is the rub...
Occasionally a few brave souls, among them this writer, try for a local show. Then, if there is something really tweedy on, the little women swarm to the Brattle, where the debutantes rub elbows with the intellectuals, and respectability survives...
...World War II, French African states have had elected assemblies responsible for the machinery of local government. In addition, the territories elected deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, where they picked up considerable political experience on an international scale-and let a little French culture rub off on them. African army officers were schooled at Saint-Cyr, received commissions in the French Army; apprentice diplomats were trained at the Quai d'Orsay, served as counselors and secretaries in French em bassies around the world...