Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drove up Memorial Drive towards Plympton Street, he felt that wonderful surge of warmth inside him which always accompanied his return to Cambridge Vag was living in Boston this summer but made at least one trip a week back to Harvard, sinking his roots into the slime of Cambridge for a fresh supply of worldly oblivion to carry him through his next week...
Radcliffe administrators, moreover, are quick to point out the advantages to Annex students of even the limited amount of independence which the sister school still maintains. The most obvious is the smaller size of Radcliffe which permits a greater degree of warmth and friendliness between students and administrators than can exist in an institution the size of Harvard...
Upon a Hunch. Alone against the mountain, Dorothy LeMasurier kept her wits about her. She carefully covered her husband with part of a parachute. She put a red sweater on a pole to attract search planes, went on using a salvaged bucket to melt snow (by body warmth) for drinking water. Every day she took pains to stand up and do a few exercises. Protected by several layers of clothing against the cold and sleet, she ticked off the days with lipstick on a nearby tree. But shock and exposure began to tell. After 19 days on Ferris Mountain, only...
...Strung Up. The people like Ernie so fine that they have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual...
...monumental structure of Cezanne's Portrait of Jules Peyron and Rocks at Bimemus, wedded with all the warmth of bristling light, comprises the quintessence of this classic vision. And an early, analytical-cubist Picasso landscape, with its shimmering greys and silvers, shows how formal structure at its purest and most abstract can be fully as moving as more extroverted emotion...