Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawing board -the family's dining-room table in Towson, Md. There, like retired British officers re-enacting the Boer War, the Thomases use ten salt shakers to diagram new plays. Young Jack, who quarterbacks the Johns Hopkins' football team mainly because he wants to stay in shape for lacrosse, explains that "I'm not interested in anything else. We Thomases just go to school to play lacrosse and then to coach. It's like a religion...
...given so strong a sense of its pervasiveness, or the methodical detail with which it was grafted onto the twin German traditions of folk and high art. Goebbels' cameramen, filming the gnarled peasants at work or the shiny, hopeful faces of village children baking festive rolls in the shape of swastikas, were building on the most popular traditions of 19th century German genre painting-that volkisch sentiment that was Germany's equivalent to America's image of frontier virtue. One sequence says it all: a choir singing carols beneath a light-baubled Christmas tree in a village...
...also has an affair, bravely trying not to be maternal about the poor, charming young man who drags her off to unsanitary Spain. There she gets fever, makes it back to a London hotel, descends into darkness for some weeks. When she awakes-hair no longer dyed, all her shape gone-she looks like a 140-year-old woman just escaped from Shangri...
...time, black students and faculty have tried to ignore Kilson's vicious slanders We recognized that the effort to survive in a racist society damages all of us and there seemed little to be gained by public wrangling with one of our brothers who is so obviously in worse shape than most But such fraternal tolerance must give way when it becomes clear that our silence may be considered as concession by the Harvard community, particularly those in policy-making positions...
...Faculty Council gave its seal of approval this week to the design of the planned $3-million freshman dormitory after examining new sketches which call for a reduction in the structure's size and shape. The dorm will replace Hunt Hall, which will be demolished in mid-June...