Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand showed only one heart. Maybe this holds true for other hands." Checking the records of past hands against notes that they had made during the observations, the trio found the pattern. One finger meant a singleton heart. Two fingers together meant two hearts; two spread in a V shape meant five. Three fingers clenched meant three hearts; three fingers spread apart indicated six. Four fingers together meant four. A holding of seven hearts or more could be indicated simply in the bidding. Holding the cards in the right hand instead of the left indicated a heart void...
...nights, rarely takes a vacation. Surrey has a grasp of taxation that has impressed Congressmen and Presidents alike, but he is such an articulate advocate of tax reform and such an implacable foe of tax loopholes that oil, mining and banking interests tried to block his nomination. He helped shape the $1.5 billion depreciation reform of 1962 and the $11.5 billion income tax cut of 1964, regards excise taxes as "a haphazard and discriminatory jumble which was the next logical step in reforming the tax system...
Nonetheless, it is not in the nature of the Jesuits to be too still for too long,-and much renewal is already taking shape within the order by quiet evolution rather than constitutional change...
Rolls-Royce gets under way in high style when Rex Harrison, as a British Foreign Office nabob, goes out to buy a motorized bauble for his wife (Jeanne Moreau). "I don't much care for the shape of the decanter," Harrison purrs, eying the built-in bar accessories. He has the automobile delivered during a party on Ascot eve, and Veteran Director Anthony Asquith (The V.l.P.s) begins scratching through the smooth surfaces of leisure-class life with exquisite malice. At dinner, Moreau arranges a tryst with one of Harrison's subordinates (Edmund Purdom), masking her passion with some...
...publisher calls this "a motley but not unshapely collection." Both verdicts are just. John Updike has never yet parted with a word before its shape conformed to the creator's purpose. And "motley" nicely describes the collage assembled beneath this arrogantly stark title. A short-story writer, a poet and a novelist, Updike here exhibits the hand that also fabricates nonfiction on demand: book reviews, parodies, autobiographical snippets, some of his anonymous contributions to The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department, all of it reprinted. The assortment casts neither light nor doubt on Updike...