Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later years were a nightmare. David and Ellen lived in the mistaken belief that they were responsible for Ora's misery. Old and haggard, Ora degenerated into a hysterical creature whose violent "attacks" could be eased only when David let her nestle against his shoulder. In the end, Ora survived them both; as David, at 76, prepared to die. she whispered her love and her loyalty: ''Till death do us part...
Eddie grew up with a permanent chip on his shoulder. One schoolmate recalls that "he would fight at the drop of a hat -just for the hell of it." Another remembers: "I never saw him in the summer without a baseball glove, or in the winter without a soccer ball." (He was the high-scoring star of Northeast High School's championship soccer team.) Lester Owen, Eddie's high-school gym teacher, was impressed by the Stanky single-mindedness: "It was baseball that Eddie came to high school for. He said he was going...
...earthbound womanhood. The children point the way upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...
Sarah Lawrence tutors are unexplicably termed "dons", a strange name since the college bears no other resemblance to Oxford. The don tutors his tutees, discusses general problems of study and educational goals, and, in addition, often provides a shoulder on which a girl can sob out all troubles concerning the men in her life. Besides the papers or "contracts" that the student delivers to her adviser on subjects of her own choosing, the don student relationship is a very informal one. Most of Sarah Lawrence education is centered on these advisers, who include the whole faculty. Students take only three...
Franchise, who paints between household chores, had found her subjects close by: vegetables, flowers, kitchen utensils, portraits of her children. Stylistically she stayed close to home too, turned out canvases that looked as though they might have been painted over the aging master's shoulder. "Picasso never gave me any lessons," said Franchise, "but of course I showed my pictures to him and he showed his pictures to me. Naturally, Picasso has set a most inspiring example with his own work...