Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colorful and quirky.* The son of a notary, he was born in Florence in 1515, went to Rome at the age of 18, a strikingly attractive youth who kept his good looks all his life. A contemporary described him in old age "with hair as white as ermine; his skin is as delicate as a girl's. If he lifts his hand up and it happens to be against the sun it looks transparent, just like alabaster.'' Ordained at 35, he modestly resisted being made a cardinal. He was so chary of pomp and circumstance that...
...Madam," "Where's Charley?" "Once Upon A Mattress," "Damn Yankees," and "Pajama Game" are some recent "smash hits" with his magical polish. Although he gave up acting for writing and directing in 1919, he returned to the stage to co-star with Mary Martin and Helen Hayes in "The Skin Of Our Teeth," which, the critics agreed, testified to his undiminished acting ability. "It was very hot playing to summer audiences in a fur coat," he remembered. "I could have been playing golf in Puerto Rico...
Quincy plans to offer its students a seminar in skin diving under the auspices of a professional "fish." The course will be conducted at the YMCA or in a Harvard pool, conceivably Adams...
Taking issue with Jameson, an Adams superintendent maintained the pool would be large enough for the program. But he also expressed concern lost the skin-diving apparatus--if not the boys--pollute the water...
Civil Observation. What of the future of The Music of Time? It may confidently be predicted that deaths in the cast of characters will be more frequent. They are getting no younger, and besides, they cannot all come through the war with a whole skin. Will we learn anything about Nick's marriage to Isobel Tolland except that she had a miscarriage? How will "Chips" Lovell get on with Priscilla Tolland? The addicted reader can hardly wait. Meanwhile it would seem to be a safe bet that Narrator Nick Jenkins will be commissioned, like Author Powell, in a posh...