Word: vestals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coffee zeese instead of coffee, because it recalled old Z.C., a cook who made coffee so strong you could float an egg on it. Or to call working ottin', after an industrious logger named Otto. To call a big fire in the grate a jeffer, because old Jeff Vestal always had a big fire going. To say charlie ball for embarrass, because old Charlie Ball, a local Indian, was so shy he never said a word. To say forbes, short for four bits, and tubes, for two bits. To call a phone a buckywalter after Walter Levi, known back...
...vice chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Automobile Law. Fuchsberg. who also happens to have a prosperous private practice in auto-damage cases, charged that the A.I.A. members merely wanted "to get the Government off their backs." Another vocal critic of the A.I.A. recommendation was Vestal Lemmon, president of the rival National Association of Independent Insurers, whose 480 affiliates (including State Farm Mutual and Allstate, the two biggest auto insurers) write more than half of U.S. auto-insurance policies. Lemmon raised serious doubts as to whether the A.I.A. plan would actually reduce premium rates, also criticized...
Radcliffe won the first Seven Sisters Sailing Regatta at Princeton last weekend. The Cliffies sailed away with the Tiger Bowl and a plaque in honor of the Temple of the Seven Vestal Virgins...
Jimmy Porter's women should be alike and they weren't. Alison and Helena are well-bred, stiff, a little nervous -- they'll have an aura of vestal virginity about them forever. But Emily Sisson (Alison) played a trembly faun while Tracy Goss. (Helena) played a la-de-dah matron. So at the end we concentrated on an antique question: which type woman will Jimmy wind up with? Instead we should be watching Jimmy's final gesture of abandon...
...best of all on opening night was Nick Whitlam as the head Vestal, a booming games mistress who almost, but not quite, succeeds in establishing military discipline over her violent sexual frustrations. With a technique born of fastidious hard-sell he leads the chorus through the show's finest numbers, You're Only A Virgin Once and the kick line, Love Me, Love My Cult. Here, Steve Kaplan's lyrics, by the by, are all things wonderful, and one forgives and forgets his occasional carelessness in other parts of the production...