Word: sures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soap shrinks, of course, but the portrait of Napoleon stays. "Imagine being able to wash your hands with Napoleon," exults Xavier Moreschi, the chief Corsican commercializer of the bicentennial in Paris, who is already actively preparing the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Napoleon's death in 1971. "Sure, they get indignant about that back home in Ajaccio, but a guy who can sell soap when he has been dead almost 150 years must be somebody...
Rock-Bottom Honesty. Society, to be sure, was not Eakins' forte. He admired people of accomplishment, preferred to portray doctors, professors, scientists. In 1900, he became acquainted with several Roman Catholic clergymen at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Philadelphia suburb of Overbrook, and eagerly seized the opportunity to portray four clerics as well as a prominent Catholic layman. For Eakins, it was a rare chance to examine various personalities within a close-knit group. For this reason, the pictures have long held a special fascination for those who knew of their existence. But in the cloistered halls...
Bernice considers such tactics just another form of squeeze play. "The tracks have managed to supply female jockeys with the necessary facilities, and I am sure baseball could do the same," she says. "As for the language, well, it's no different from working in a factory. And after all, it's what you are that counts, not your job. When I work a game I am an umpire; the rest of the day I am a lady...
Considering the experience of the two writers, the column actually ought to be better. The savvy, wry Mankiewicz, 45, is a former Peace Corps director for Latin America who became Robert Kennedy's press secretary. He is best known to the public for his sure handling of televised press conferences, despite his grief, after the Senator was shot. But he is also admired by reporters for the kind of whimsy that led him to explain away the biting of two ladies by Bobby's Newfoundland, Brumus, when a group visited the Kennedy home last year. "I only wish...
...behind all these gigantic dimensions lies an immeasurable mystery. Why, for instance, does a Moby Dick attack a ship? Perhaps because the bull whale sees it as a "ship-animal," a sexual rival for his cows, Dr. Scheffer speculates. Yet he is not too sure...