Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quite a few housewives more or less cheerfully give up the struggle. "The house isn't a burden because I haven't let it become so," says Mrs. Alden G. Pearce of Beverly Hills. "Housework is like whisky-it keeps." Adds one Van Nuys, Calif., housewife: "I would be completely ashamed if any of my friends caught me off guard with my house completely tidy and spotless. It would look as though I didn't have anything better to do than stay home and clean...
...glory and hors d'oeuvres are apt to be served by caterers rather than servants, but third-and fourth-generation scions still keep the banners flying high. On a sunny day at Bailey's Beach, 15 Cushings can be seen at one time, flanked by Drexels, Auchin-closses and Van Alens. Neither high taxes, lack of servants, nor the Newport Jazz Festival can drive them out from behind their wrought-iron gates and brick walls...
...Van der Goes, Portinari Tryptych, $20 million...
Thus Mark Van Doren opened the guests' presentation of readings from their own prose and poetry with a plea for "honoring the scruples of a fine poet who, in his own terms, was 'conscience-bound' to stay away." Author John Hersey prefaced his reading from Hiroshima with these words: "I read these passages on behalf of the great number of citizens who have become alarmed in recent weeks by the sight of fire begetting fire. Let these words be a reminder. The step from one degree of violence to the next is imperceptibly taken, and cannot...
...further glamorize a morbid theme, Director William Wyler daubs it somewhat irrelevantly in full color. Yet his sure professionalism makes every important scene insidiously effective. The sense of stifling confinement is established at the outset when Clegg, in a van, stalks his victim toward a narrow byway where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English...