Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williston's manner in class was always characterized by the greatest urbanity and kindliness, seasoned with an acute sense of humor. His students remember him as the last member of the Law Faculty to wear a wing collar to every lecture, displaying the mark of a true gentleman...
...erstwhile African allies were re-examining their relations with Leopoldville. First to bury the hatchet was President Fulbert Youlou of the Congo Republic, formerly the French Congo, whose capital city of Brazzaville lies across the river from Leopoldville. Youlou, a nonpracticing Roman Catholic priest who stubbornly continues to wear his cassock, supported Tshombe's secession in 1960. But with Tshombe on the way out, Youlou suddenly sailed across the Stanley Pool to make friends with the Leopoldville crowd. Then, looking like a shorter, soutaned version of Sonny Listen, he took off on a five-day tour of the country...
...call ourselves the Guttersnipes." says Ida in her dulcet croak, "as opposed to the Rat Pack. We don't wear Italian shoes and we don't drive foreign cars. We rarely talk about show business. I'm sure there's something much more interesting in this world...
Agent's Despair. Buddy Bohn has such a healthy, wash-and-wear body that he looks amazingly fresh after all his travels. He always puts on a clean shirt before singing for his sukiyaki. His baritone is fragile and breaks frequently. But he makes up for it with enthusiasm and philosophy: "The very artlessness of folk songs," he points out, "amounts to eternal and universal art in capturing the hearts of peoples...
Holiness by Ritual. Children have naturally bad taste, and of course the Glass kids can pick their own clothes; their terrible clothes become holy by wear. Children love ritual; under Seymour's hypnotic influence, every bit of business in the Glass family has become ritual. Other people's rituals are odious; thus Seymour rejects a nonsectarian wedding ceremony in favor of elopement. It is the universal cry of childhood: "No! Play it my way," and it is Salinger's law for his children, even the grown-up ones...