Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attractive women, however, almost invariably appreciate him?and vice versa. Manhattan Freelance Writer (and Jet Setter) Gloria Steinem finds him "overpowering." Actress Angie Dickinson describes him as "fascinating and funny." Galbraith's yet-to-be-published India diaries return the compliment. "She has fair, pure skin," he cooed after sitting next to Angie on a transcontinental jet in 1961, "blonde to vaguely reddish hair, merry eyes and a neat, unstarved body." Despite his obviously observant eye, Miss Dickinson, who visited the subcontinent in 1962, doubts that he has any "serious romances?or any romances...
...difficult to penetrate the administrative skin to get at the financial heart of the matter. But it does not seem that these measures would be financially unfeasible when one considers the expense of other projects now underway. A new House is great. But expanding a system is progress only if the system is viable. What is the point of extending a system of upper-classmen residences when the basic rules of that system are failing to achieve a major goal--the maintenance of microcosms of Harvard's diversity...
When it came, nothing was different, except the state of the war. It had intensified, grown more immoral, and more illegal. The altruism was forgotten. What was most important was saving your own skin--preventing yourself from being in a position where you would have to kill a man you thought you had no right to kill. It is too bad the altruism has been forgotten. The Selective Service System remains highly discriminatory even as the war grows worse...
...representing the world's top fur houses converged on the Seattle Fur Exchange to compete for Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid by George Liebes of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus for four male pelts, each more than 5 ft. long and 30 in. wide...
Dylan went through a period of intense personal projection in Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited. He was himself the main character in most of the songs, either being acted upon (usually vicously) or acting (even in "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat," "Well I saw him/Makin' love to you/You forgot to close the garage door.,"). And when he did comment on social ills ("Memphis Blues Again," "Desolation Row") he did so in terms of the gritty reality all around him, fish-trucks loading, the "heat-pipes that cough," the "Senator showing everyone...