Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Girl-Getters is a dispassionate study of youthful drifters at a British seaside resort, glimpsed, in effect, through bloodshot eyes. When a British moviemaker wants to spell out the middle-class vapidities rejected by youth, he naturally heads straight for the shore where "the grockles" turn out in force. Grockles are the holidaying suckers of all ages, gathering junk in shabby souvenir shops, having their pictures taken, and eating anything, says one young cynic, "so long as it's with chips...
...metal posts will probably spell the end of touch football along that part of the Charles, but Howard Whitmore, Jr. '29, Commissioner of the M.D.C. said that "the river bank isn't the place for that sort of thing anyway...
...long ago in Paris," recalled the speaker at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, "I went to buy a ticket on the helicopter service. The girl at the counter asked me to spell my name. 'Oh,' she said, 'you spell it like our helicopter.' " Exactly. Aviation Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, 76, reminisced about the romance and passion of flying at a banquet honoring the father of the helicopter. "My first one was more vibration, dust and noise," he laughed, "and it couldn't fly. But now as an old man and as a designer...
...contributions the dying season, in which plays by Edward Albee (Malcolm), Tennessee Williams (Slapstick Tragedy), and William Inge (Where's Daddy?) succumbed in swift succession, could fairly be declared a calamity and Broadway a disaster area. With Merrick's offerings, 1965-66 will be recorded as a minor sinking spell in the long decline of legit...
Although some observers fear that the new system may spell the end of traditional House images, Monro maintained that student preferences, requests by the Masters for particular categories of students, and the watchful eye of the Committee on Assignments will combine to preserve traditional House strengths...