Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where he was born 51 years ago, the son of a box manufacturer. "My father printed messages of condolence for the departed on the ribbons that go with mortuary wreaths," he recalls. " 'Eternal Regrets' or 'Crushed by Sorrow.' These messages were printed in big wooden type, and I often composed my name with the same type. To this day, I am obsessed with the question mark and numbers...
...pleasantly arrogant young Briton and his pretty, skittish twin sister are unwittingly trapped in the warfare between a cell of Black Muslim-type activists and a clutch of Negro-baiting neoFascists. Eventually the twins bob up at an international Fascist jamboree atop Mount Parnassus, where the Negroes attack the Fascists in their meeting-tent, then rape and murder the sister. The hero escapes to go home to pamphleteer in the cause of tolerance, and to get himself happily married. "The answer to everything," he concludes, is contained "within the magic of reciprocal love." Author Benedictus' discursive, Edwardian elegance...
...Most of the students in Jameson's course are upper-level and graduate students," Friedman said. "We felt that as responsible members of the Faculty it was our duty to prevent this film from being shown to a lower-level Gen Ed course of this type, consisting mainly of freshmen and sophomores...
...Hurtubise, 33: the $77,000 Atlanta 500 stock car race, averaging 131.2 m.p.h. in his 1966 Plymouth; at Hampton, Ga. It was the first major victory in two years for Hurtubise, who narrowly escaped death in 1964 when his Indianapolis-type roadster crashed and caught fire during a race in Milwaukee-leaving him with three broken ribs, a punctured lung and serious burns over 40% of his body...
...nail. Gerald Carson is quite capable of organizing a text, as he demonstrated in The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, the goat-glands man, The Social History of Bourbon and The Old Country Store. But here his source material, the mere listing of which takes 19 pages of eyestrain type, apparently overwhelms him. Confronted with so much unassimilated abundance, Carson opts to fly over it, presenting what he calls "a bird's-eye view of the folkways, conventions and inherited ideas governing civilized behavior which have been followed-or flouted-among the English-speaking inhabitants of the United States...