Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picnic came 58 members of the important 70-man Pennsylvania delegation, including determined Fence-Sitter Fine, plus 60 alternates and 160 newsmen. Ike spoke to them from the back porch. It was his duty, he said, to tell delegates how he would tackle Government problems; it was their duty to decide whether they liked what he said. "I will abide by their decision cheerfully...
...portrait of such a character, Let It Come Down has the merits of clarity, intelligence and melodrama. Its great weakness is that the numbness of the sitter has got into the artist. Like Dyar, Bowles seems incapable of involving himself in at least half the realities of life. He makes his job easy by playing down characters and incidents that might fill his hero's emptiness with something more amiable than smuggling and murder. He exposes Dyar's hungry soul to every temptation except the temptation to take a brace. In this way, Bowles takes most...
Life with the Roses is one crisis after another, e.g., Jane's acid test as a baby sitter when all the formula bottles break, Jimmy-John's grim efforts to ride a bicycle or hike ten miles for a Boy Scout merit badge. Along the line, thanks to the long-suffering Roses, the problem pair finds understanding, love and finally the security that turns them into normal youngsters...
...never had a sitter he admired more than Franklin Roosevelt. It was not hard to get F.D.R. talking, and he once told Jo his secret ambition. "Do you know," asked F.D.R., "that cheese shop in Paris on the Rue d'Amsterdam? . . . When I get through with this job of being President . . . I am going to open a cheese shop like that...
...courses ranging from Human Rights to Art in Man's Environment. His afternoons bring beer and discussion sessions at the Faculty Club with other Niemans and professors. But he takes advantage of the evenings to imbibe Boston cultural offerings with his wife. "My only task is finding a baby sitter for my three boys," he smiles. "In Melbourne they're on call, like doctors...