Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elizabeth Allen takes her fame as stoically as she has taken the pain that has been her lifelong lot. One of 17 children of an Irish mother and a German immigrant tailor, she was born in North London with a double curvature of the spine and a clubfoot, got her nickname when, as a child, she insisted she was as much a queen as Elizabeth I. She became an atheist after her mother told her that her afflictions were brought about by a wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed...
...bamboo and thorn vine so thick that men kill at a range of 10 ft. without having once seen each other. It is a war of leg-shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made for a writer like S.L.A. Marshall, who can reconstruct a small-unit action so that it takes on the intimate immediacy of a leech beneath a platoon sergeant's collar...
...sinfoniae from three J.S. Bach contatas, Wagner's Sieg-fried Idyll in its original instrumentation, Quiet City by Aaron Copland, and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. It was the most ingenious program assembled at Harvard in the past several years. These works, all scored for a chamber orchestra, were ostensibly tailor-made for the Bach Society's diminutive instrumental forces...
...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Giovanni's Wedding," an original five-act musical based on some of Kaye's earlier sketches about a shy Italian-tailor-come-to-America. Amzie Strickland plays the widow who breaks through Giovanni's shell and gently leads him to the altar...
...essential protein component of a person's cancer cells could be combined with an unrelated protein and injected, the patient's system might react by making three types of antibody, one against the foreign protein, one against the cancer factor and a third against the combination. A tailor-made vaccine could thus be created to make each patient immune to his own cancer. The Czajkowski theory is attractive and plausible to many researchers but remains unproved...