Word: sweater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serious Humorist." A mild-mannered intellectual who prudently wears a sweater beneath his suit coat, Jules Feiffer (rhymes with knifer) got well on Sick, Sick, Sick. This was not only the title of his book but also the wry tone of his work on such topics as frustrated love in Greenwich Village, the H-bomb tests, and psychosomatic illness. Many of Feiffer's best cartoons are not funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power...
...with the concierge. Author Marsh, 36, who has some autobiographical credentials for her story, writes with authority about the grubby side of Parisian life, has woven the fly-by-night painters, writers and plain frauds into her story with the sureness of a Parisian landlady counting stitches into a sweater...
...supposedly allergenic substance. In their practice the doctors found that many patients who say they are allergic to wool are actually irritated by the wool's rough fibers: properly conducted patch tests show that they do not react to pure wool, or the wool in their particular sweaters. For girls, wearing a cotton blouse under the wool sweater usually solves the problem...
...downtown office, a block from Havana's Presidential Palace, Ruby cuts an enduring, familiar figure, togged in grey sweater, carmine blouse and blue slacks. Unruffled by habitual administrative alterations, most of them punctuated by gunfire, outside her green door, she occasionally makes a revolution sound like a Long Beach reunion of ex-Iowans. From her accounts (and other Times stories last week) the reader got little impression of the violent executions decreed by the Castro forces...
...make the 175 lb. limit for light-heavyweight title defenses. For Durelle, Archie shrank from 208 to 174 without noticeable strain or impairment of his powerful punch. He slyly insists he got a secret reducing formula while fighting in Australia years ago, gave an aborigine a red turtlenecked sweater for it. Says Archie: "I figured they had the straight dope. All the time I was there, I never saw a fat aborigine...