Word: toms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TOM WOLFE IS BACK--in this month's issue of Harper's, with a piece on the phony radicalism of the American intellectual. It's too bad, because when he was on the same case a few years back, with a tremendously telling satire of Leonard Bernstein's party for the Black Panthers, Wolfe convinced everyone that Lennie and his East Side pals were counterfeit radicals and really, assholes. Now that Wolfe writes from his own vantage point, purely, without the benefit of foils like those partygoers, he comes off as a strangely fashionable reactionary and, why mince words...
...wagon and walk every time I can. I figure I've walked 1,300 miles." Pat Doran, 62, a Blaine riding stable operator, is footing most expenses himself, and, like many other nonofficial drivers, is getting additional money from local groups and private donations. Tom Keen, a Walla Walla, Wash., construction worker, took up his wife Pat's challenge to build his own covered wagon; the couple sold their two cars, trailer house and furniture to finance the trip...
...grandfather came here as Sam Kamenetski and left as Sam Kamen," says Tom A. Friedmann, 26, an attorney from Wichita, Kans., "because the immigration inspectors couldn't spell or pronounce his full name. He was a carriage maker, and he had some friends who had settled out West, so he took the first train to Kansas City. He saved money and started a grocery store, and most of our family has gone into retailing. My sister and I were the first ones to go to college...
Freckled, red-haired Tom Jefferson was originally tutored, along with his older sisters and Randolph cousins, in a one-room building on the Randolph estate. When he was nine, he began studying Greek, Latin and French, and at 14 he luckily fell under the tutelage of an excellent classicist, the Reverend James Maury. Even at that early age, this somewhat aloof intellectual was what he himself calls "a hard student," and his long hours and rigid selfdiscipline are legendary among his friends. Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen...
Woodwind, brass and percussion players who don't make the orchestra needn't despair: there's always the Summer School Band under the direction of Tom Everett. They don't even require auditions. And they only rehearse once a week. "We just want to give people an opportunity to come together and make some music," Everett says...