Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many nudity cases here," one of the policemen explained to the girls. He added, "I'm not going to tell my wife about this. She'd never believe...
With regard to the black people, or vis a vis the history of manufacturing in America, or the collection of American antiques, or an interest in American art, one might feel a dillettante, or boorish. Listen to any knowledgeable person--especially a European--and he will tell you to study European painting, the fate of the Jews, Florentine curios, etc., if you would find your heritage...
...overheard me tell another that I went to Radcliffe. "A Cliffie!" he shrieked in disbelief. "Honest to God? I didn't think you girls lowered yourselves to come to these things...
...WISH they didn't want us to laugh so much. Admittedly, we can always defend ourselves. We can tell ourselves our laughter is being evoked only to demonstrate once and for all just how cruel society is. But it's an unconvincing argument. No matter how we hide it, it is the fags--and the fags alone--whom we are deriding. That's how audiences work. A few years ago, the musical Cabaret learned something similar during its Boston tryout. One mock love song between the ghoulish and decadent German emcee and a fake gorilla ended with the emcee assuring...
...Perhaps because they know they will be some-what dependent on one another in the field, the new members make an effort to know one another well, and after they get back, they keep track of one another. Vogt knows some 75 alumni of the Project, and he can tell you who is doing what, and what he has written, and where he is working. Getting to know undergraduates has been one of the greater joys of the Project, according to Vogt and his wife, who also goes to Chiapas, and perhaps it is they who give the group...