Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother's denomination, she was shaken by the outcry. Last month, in the White House solarium that has served her as study, sanctuary, party room and private meeting place with Pat-it had previously been Caroline Kennedy's nursery-schoolroom-Luci sat on a well-broken-in sofa, tucked her legs beneath her, and allowed that the baptismal storm had after all wafted Pat her way. "I didn't know what to do," she explained. "I was frightened. Lynda and my mother were away. So Pat said: 'I just can't go home and leave...
...morose and different man. Late one night at home, he is obsessed with running the race again. He hands the revolver to his wife, who is unfamiliar with it. With a hurried instruction about the safety catch, he is off. She shoots him dead in mid-air over the sofa...
...outsiders, the class seems like scarcely organized chaos. Schulberg, wearing chinos and loafers, sits on a sofa. Young Negroes in Bermudas and sawed-off jeans, women in simple dresses, are grouped around him on threadbare chairs. While one of the writers reads from his latest work, or Schulberg lectures on the mechanics of publishing, a stranger may enter the room to bang away at the scarred upright piano...
...most ardent member of the A.S.P.C.A. must feel like blowing the whistle. Where once the North American dog had to beg for his supper and sleep outdoors on the welcome mat, now he is stuffed with Gaines Burgers, sprayed with Kennel No. 5, given the softest living-room sofa, and dolled up in costumes that should make Lassie hide her tail between her legs...
Though he describes Hammarskjöld as being thoroughly masculine, Stolpe adds: "Yet I sometimes felt that for all his polite talk at parties he never visually discriminated between a shapely woman and, say, a sofa or a chair." Stolpe is convinced that Hammarskjöld remained a celibate all his life, and that his failure to establish an emotionally realistic relationship with women forced his gradual retreat into his inner world...