Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor Donoghue cannot imagine how a person can keep up with the torrid pace of life in our larger cities, particularly New York. He feels that a man must lead a "marginal equivalent of existence" amid such surroundings, and prefers the tranquility of his Dublin home, where he lives with his wife and six children (his share of "helping to alleviate the Irish population decline"). Some men, he acknowledges, may be able to live amidst a fast pace while still keeping "a silent place in their hearts" but such a life...
...Shaped Room is a disappointment. The advertising placards in the lobby prepare the moviegoer for another series of torrid bosoms heaving sadly on the usual brass bed in a dirty room. This expectation is not fulfilled. Although the range of characters and the setting are standard enough: an unwed mother, a struggling writer, a sensitive Negro, and an assortment of boarding-house types ranging from aging actress to waggish whore, the result is far from ordinary. Leslie Caron as Jane, the Wronged but Right Girl, and Tom Bell as the Starving Writer show a great deal of perception in this...
Senate and House committees began hearings this week on the President's civil rights bill, the first skirmish an arduous legislative battle that most likely will last through the torrid weeks of mid-summer and into the cool of autumn. At this point the future of the bill remains unclear, with the outcome contingent on several variables: the force and intelligence of the President's leadership; the strength of the Southern senators plotting to filibuster the bill to death; the attitude of the important moderate Southerners, both in and out of Congress; and the policies of the ever more militant...
...Jackson, Miss., a torrid 102°. It was hotter still in the barnlike Masonic Hall in the Negro quarter on Lynch Street. There was no air conditioning, no electric fan. The 4,000 Negro people who squeezed into every seat, into every bit of floor space on the stage, in the aisles, along the walls, turned their faces to a flag-draped coffin. Trumpeters arose and began to play a dirge. The people sang: "Be not dismayed, God will take care...
...light reading, De Gaulle occasionally shows a penchant for the torrid. The pro-Gaullist weekly Le Nouveau Candide raised Parisian eyebrows some time ago by reporting that De Gaulle had read Les Pianos Mecaniques by Henri-Francois Rey. A French bestseller highly praised by the critics, Pianos is a sort of Dolce Vita set on Spain's Costa Brava whose main characters-a schizophrenic journalist, a neglected teen-age boy and girl, a half-wit charwoman-move through their pointless lives battling boredom with promiscuity. Sample passage: "She led him to the bed, still keeping their lips locked. Vincent...