Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a writer can only write about himself. I saw Mailer cross that line that Saturday and walk up to an MP and get arrested and I took a picture of him. And I thought, "There is Norman Mailer getting arrested in his three-piece pin-striped suit. What a comfortable feeling it is to see Mailer. He makes everything seem so friendly. There is such solace in respectability." But Mailer, at the very same instant, was not feeling the way I had imagined him: The subject was not absolutely calm. To his own excitement was added the tense quivering...
...also used by the whole neighborhood as a combination dump and doggie-run. Schramm tried complaining to the Supreme Court building's superintendent, the Board of Health, the Supreme Court marshal and the coal company that owns the lot-all of whom passed the buck. Schramm finally filed suit, naming Warren as one of the three defendants. Next morning at 8 a.m., two janitors appeared to clean...
...ceiling was blown off by the prestigious firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, which announced that it is increasing its starting salaries from $10,500 to $15,000 immediately. As other New York firms rapidly followed suit last week, it seemed likely that almost no large firm anywhere in the country could afford to lag far behind. One of Cravath's partners, Thomas Barr, explained that "the decision was not made for competitive reasons. We did it because we thought it was the right thing and the fair thing" in the light of onerously escalating living costs...
...discus, and such a hot upi prospect in football that several pro teams made him offers. Edwards, a tall (6 ft. 8 in.), brainy Negro, passed them all up to become an assistant professor of sociology at virtually all-white San Jose because "scholarship was my longest suit." Not quite. For the past six months, Harry's long suit has been Black Power and bitter protest-specifically, a campaign to cajole or coerce Negro athletes into boycotting what he considers "white-dominated" sporting events, from next fall's Mexico City Olympics on down...
...fully clothed, they were asked to discuss any anxieties or fantasies that they had about their imminent nudity. Many were apprehensive-surprisingly, more about seeing others nude than about being seen-but just talking it out helped. Though they had the choice of bathing nude or wearing a suit, all but one undressed around the bath and slipped into the swirling waters. After that, most of the group spent most of the time unselfconsciously nude...