Word: thread
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nowadays. In Oakland, Calif., when the moon is full, a group of college-educated people gather in a house in a middle-class neighborhood, remove their clothes, and whirl through the double spiral of a witches' dance. In southern New Jersey, a 30-year-old receptionist winds thread around a voodoo doll and sticks steel pins into it in a determined effort to harass a rival at the office into resigning. In Chicago, from 75 to 100 otherwise ordinary people ? mostly professionals, such as office managers, nurses, social workers and chemists ? meet weekly in The Temple...
...thread of consistency ran through the 1971-2 academic year: Chester W. Hartman '57 still had not received a hearing of the grievances he brought against the Graduate School of Design over two years...
...precisely chronicling the assault on his sense of stability and detailing his daily encounters with the only arm of the State which directly confronts him--the psychiatrist. The war described in these harassed jottings is one of attrition, and we are privy to the unravelling of "the fragile thread that sustains lucidity...
...jokes and genuinely interested questions, she stays well within the dialogue of an interview-situation in the meantime. Biting into a sandwich she looks up to find a teaching assistant who is also eating there, consults with him on some impressive sounding paper topics, and then picks up the thread of your conversation again...
...Coppola has done much more than cover Puzo's sloppier tracks. He has managed to pick up the loose stitches and thread together an epic family chronicle, expressing its conflicts with an immediacy and a love for detail of location and character that can only come from the deepest rapport with the subject matter. Comparisons have been made with Gone With the Wind, and snots have sniffed at the melodrama which can't be separated from the tenets of the retold crimes. No matter. There's heart to the work, and it starts to beat when the Don says...