Word: threads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Percival S. Howe, Jr. '17, Chairman of the Board the American Thread Company noted: "More than thing else it taught me the importance of getting this done by the use of persuasion, rather than by the of authority. Next to two years at Harvard Business School I consider a Crew Managership the best training for a business career...
...agony before she could summon a doctor. In panic, said Mrs. Harvey, she had dragged the corpse into the closet; she had collected the money only because she feared she would be accused of murder if the death were discovered. The prosecution's case hung like a thread on the ligature around the mummy's neck...
...that I am alive"-although he explains in a frenzied bout of surrealist logic that he is not exactly responsible for that. Reading his fabulous and farcical misadventures is an experience like being cornered by a compulsive talker whose merciless spate of words first glazes the eye until a thread of rewarding sense emerges from the gabble. In this respect, he is unlike the typical Chaplin figure, whose weapon was silence, but like Chaplin's little fellow, he is a reincarnation of the classic non-hero of Jewish folklore-Peter Schlemiel, the man without a shadow...
...Women. The key figure in all Suburbia, the thread that weaves between family and community-the keeper of the suburban dream-is the suburban housewife. In the absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter ("You can't have ice cream for breakfast because I say you can't"); laundress, house cleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia...
...made lawful for you," says the Koran, "to go in unto your wives on the night of the fast [and] hold intercourse with them and eat and drink until the white thread becomes distinct to you from the black thread of the dawn." But all through the long daylight hours of Ramadan, the holy month in which the Koran was revealed to Mohammed, good Moslems must abstain from food and sex according to the most rigorous rules. Strict devotion to Ramadan lays a heavy burden on modern urban living: people became irritable and ineffectual on the job. Tunisia...