Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special terror is to be aged and alone, and this is made chillingly vivid by Harry's bedridden mother (Cathleen Nesbitt), who lives with the couple. She is an arthritically gnarled stick of a woman who wets her bed, is only intermittently coherent and has to be spoon-fed by Harry, who tends her with a tactful if exasperated saintliness...
...white-haired judge to be suffering from "suicidal tendencies" and sent him to an isolation cell. There he was protectively stripped of his belt, shoes, glasses and pen, and was made to eat his dinner of ham and black-eyed peas from a paper plate with a plastic spoon...
...designated a national historic site by Congress in 1967. The house is to be open to the public daily, which will assure a permanent addition to the ubiquitous Kennedy legend. Some of the original furnishings are on display -including John Kennedy's bassinet, the silver bowl and spoon he used as a child, and two of the favorite books of his boyhood: King Arthur and His Knights and Billy Whiskers, the story of a goat. There is also a toy train of the period, presented by the Museum of the City of New York...
...Semple, 32, came to the Times's Washington bureau six years ago from the National Observer. A smooth writer and sharp analyst, he replaced Veteran Max Frankel (who became Washington bureau chief) at the White House in January. Although Semple does not get from Nixon the sort of spoon-feeding that L.B.J. used to give the Times, he has developed solid White House sources and used them to produce, for example, the most revealing backstage report of how Nixon arrived at his ABM decision. He was the first newspaper reporter to pin down the exact makeup of the Nixon...
Monday, April 21 SPOON RIVER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A com pressed version of Edgar Lee Masters' small-town Americana, with Jason Robards, Charles Aidman, Joyce Van Patten and Jennifer West. The original, on Broadway, was a critical success...