Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Given: a young nun and a young marine marooned together on a South Pacific island. To prove: that the public is willing to watch yet one more theological striptease-the cinemactic kind in which the moviegoer is encouraged to sit for about two hours in the dark with a faintly lewd leer on his face, and yet at the last minute is permitted to walk out of the theater wearing a pious smirk. The problem could hardly have been muffed by the dumbest director, but for some reason it was assigned to one of the brightest boys in Hollywood-John...
...think it would be better," he added, "to have Nasser and Ben Gurion sit down together than to have Shepilov or America or England fish into the matter...
...Architect's Furniture" [Feb. 18] you ask ''What is a chair?" From the illustrations, a chair is something to sit down in, way down. But a chair is also something to arise from. There is but one chair, the Breuer, that I could sit in without the embarrassment of having to be helped to leave. Of course I am a grandmother, not too ancient, and the reflexes aren't what they used to be, but I can still arise with dignity from all but the most modern chairs...
...mass meeting in the chapel. King appeared with handkerchief in hand and tearfully begged the students for understanding. "I'm a Negro just like you are," he said. "I sit in a Jim Crow car just like you do." But he refused to resign. Said Student Council President Ernest McEwen: "As far as the students are concerned, the institution is dead...
...techniques for beating the system--the social, the athletic, and the esthetic. The simplest version of the social is to change one's name to Saltonstall or Roosevelt (Teddy's side, of course) and let the interviewer worry about the rest. A simpler and more satisfying method is to sit placidly (i.e., quiet ostentation) throughout the interview and then ask at the session's close, "How much does Harvard need for that new house? Daddy was wondering." Can't miss...