Word: scarf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...queue reached down the shaded walk and across the grass, streaming out like a scarf in the wind. Children and adults, they had come from Harlem, Park Avenue and Greenwich Village to gather at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for the final scheduled performance in a ten-night summer dance festival. When the box office opened to pass out the 2,263 free tickets that filled every seat, the end of the long line was awash with customary disappointment. As had happened on every other night of the festival, there was one who was turned away for every...
...Outcast. When Mahlke is 14 and dozing beside an athletic field, a classmate thrusts a playful kitten on his "mouse"-the word he uses throughout the book to describe his swollen Adam's apple. Mahlke becomes savagely self-conscious about the mouse. In winter, he fixes his scarf high over it with a safety pin and constantly reaches up with his hand to be sure the scarf is in place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision...
Only after everyone is seated does Donald H. Fleming, Professor of History, stride briskly into Emerson D to deliver his lectures on American thought. He unwinds his scarf with a flourish, and jauntily waves his acknowledgement to the friendly hisses or applause with which his History 169 students often greet him. When this urbane figure turns to a discussion of intellectual history, he gives a dramatic, as well as an historical, interpretation of the men treated in the course. Reading from original sources, he tries to convey the sarcasm of H.L. Mencken, the vitality of Theodore Roosevelt, or the pomposity...
...story is simple: Prince Albert, a young French aristocrat, is totally absorbed in the memory of an eccentric ballerina, Leocadia, who, in a dramatic gesture, strangled herself with her scarf three days after meeting Albert. Albert, thinking himself in love with Leocadia, can do nothing but relieve his three days with her. His old aunt, the Duchess, has bought all the places Albert and Leocadia visited (a nightclub, a park bench, etc.) and placed them on her estate. At the beginning of the play she brings Amanda, a girl who resembles Leocadia, to the estate to complete memory lane. Amanda...
...this world," says President Lurton Eugene Felton, 63, "and we were so concentrated, we were vulnerable." So diversified has the company's line become that even the scantily clad jolly green giant adorning its products has had to vary his appearance: on frozen food boxes, he wears a scarf...