Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Tadhg Sweeney '61 gave her a box of red roses, Miss Fonda remarked. "When I looked out the plane window and saw you all march out in a line to meet me, I got so scared...
Precision or Abstraction. In his one-sitting paintings, mostly landscapes and seascapes done on Cape Cod, Dickinson is especially versatile at catching the highlights of a moment. He can do a cottage window that is both precise and geometrical, yet seems about to reveal some intriguing mystery. A seascape may be romantic and bathed in mist, while a painting of waves crashing upon some rocks can recede into abstraction. But Dickinson has still another side to him: oils that are pure dramatic invention. Such a work is his Ruin at Daphne...
Vitality & Change. Methodism's greatest vitality shows up in areas of greatest change, for example in Hawaii, where it hopes soon to open an interdenominational campus as "a window on the West." Last fall alone, Methodists opened three new colleges, including two in North Carolina, which has made its racial peace and developed a strong economy. Another sign of revival this year is Alaska Methodist University (140 students)-two sleekly modern buildings nestled against the snowy Chugach Mountains on a 500-acre campus near Anchorage...
Then Gleason recalled the post-première celebration and the victorious return to his hotel ("I opened the window to look out and see if it was still snowing, and they had the nets up"). His conclusion: "This isn't a requiem for a heavyweight. I'm coming back next week. I don't know what we're going to do, but tune in on the next chapter, because this might be the greatest soapless soap opera you've ever seen...
...incurable cocotte. But she was a likable one, and also never let guilt or bitterness interfere with gaiety. In London, she wrote, she was able to look at it all and laugh sufficiently to "dampen her dress." She died at 35, having fallen from a third-story window during a carouse. Or was she pushed by French revolutionary agents? The book leaves that question, and most others, tantalizingly open...