Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down parking places. "I took direct action," he says. "I drove the bloody thing to the Sanitation Department instead of leaving it on the street-one of maybe five or six citizens who made the effort that year. And on delivering the car, which was still in good running shape, I was met by disbelieving Sanitation men who tried to persuade me either to keep it, sell it, or give it to them. Then they saw I was serious and ordered it sent to the execution grounds on Randalls Island, where in seconds it was mashed into a suitcase-sized...
...York's Carnegie Corporation, in a frank and chilling analysis of the nation's academic future. Speaking in Minneapolis, Pifer warned that it was high time for educators in the public and private sectors to stop their selfish factional disputes and get together to help shape new national policies on which federal funding must be based...
...paper is in bad shape both legally and financially. The only thing which will prove to Cambridge officials that Avatar is here to stay is if lots of respectable people come out and sell it in the streets," he said...
...podium, he possesses an innately theatrical flair, miming the emotions of the music, sculpturing the shape of a composition in the air with gracefully masculine gestures. "I can feel the audience through my back as if I were facing them," he says, and he is the first to admit that some of his gyrations are for the audience's benefit. "For a cymbal crash, the player will come in anyway, but if I give a big gesture, it just adds to the high point. Or in the development section of Beethoven's Eroica symphony...
DeYoung for the Young. Very much in charge of Goodyear is Russell DeYoung, 58, who became chairman four years ago after six years as president. He neither smokes nor drinks, otherwise keeps in shape by taking a quick 50-lap swim in his homeside pool every night. He needs all the stamina he can muster. In Akron alone, Goodyear stretches five miles, which makes his regular inspection a hearty workout. He also goes abroad several times a year and logs 2,000 miles a week visiting Goodyear's 50 other domestic plants...