Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago, have been unthinkable. For nearly 40 years, Gordimer has spoken out against apartheid, that crazy quilt of laws and restrictions that enabled the white minority to control and suppress the country's black majority. She has done so in her fiction, although subtly and without tub thumping; she portrays the strains of racial divisiveness and oppression by monitoring their effect on individual characters, recognizable lives. As a private citizen, Gordimer has often engaged in more direct opposition to her government's policies...
Katharine Hepburn is an odd bird. Hemorrhaging after an eye operation, she yells to her chauffeur, "David, take off your shoes and socks and your pants -- and get into the tub and try to get the blood out of the stuff I throw in there." With her lover Howard Hughes, two of the skinniest eccentrics of our time, she dives naked off the wing of his seaplane. In a chapter about another beau, the agent Leland Hayward, Hepburn talks about living in Los Angeles' Coldwater Canyon, living in Benedict Canyon, finding a snake in her living room, buying real estate...
Harvard's traditional "Every tub on its own bottom" approach to fundraising will still have to change slightly, though...
...kill 'every tub on its own bottom,' but you do modify the concept to make it kind of 'every tub on each other's bottom,'" says Rudenstine. "In some sense the schools do their own fundraising, but where you can find the linkages and where you can find University-wide priorities and opportunities, you fundraise that...
...says that he forsees a Harvard University that will no longer operate under its traditional "every tub on its own bottom" structure. Rather, he says, it will be more like "every tub on each other's bottom...