Word: skeletons
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Before the week ended, everyone was shouting angrily at everyone else. Those teachers who crossed the picket lines in an effort to keep some 400 of the city's 900 schools limping along with skeleton staffs ran into a bitter barrage of invective. "Commies!" "Fascists!" "Nazi Lovers!" "Nigger Lovers!" shouted the highly confused strikers, many of them veterans of years of tortured teaching in the city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike...
...urban areas. (Television is going to be the most potent tool of social change in the near future and it offers the best possibilities for the talented hippie-radical to achieve any dent in society. Physicists could be television engineers and artists could put the meat on the skeleton of radical theory...
...cling to the world no better than a ring on a skeleton's finger...
...annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child's toy ladybug, a rock with an owl's face drawn on it, the skeleton of a bat, the mummified body of a cat, a twisted wagon tongue, a piece of the rudder of a fishing boat...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...