Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assured him that he would be all right because, she said, she had a son of his age. At the hospital, the boy asked if his watch was still running (it had stopped precisely at 37 minutes past the hour). "I remember," he said, "looking out of the plane window at the snow below covering the city. It looked like a picture out of a fairy book. It was a beautiful sight. Then all of a sudden there was an explosion. The plane started to fall and people started to scream. I held on to my seat and then...
...beaches and tennis courts near San Sebastian. Baudouin took her on a tour of Belgian cities last September. Her modest ways and faraway smile made a big hit with his Flemish and French-speaking subjects alike. On the wedding morning, pictures of the royal couple smiled from every shop window in the land...
Sean O'Casey's Drums Under the Window is a lilting work that makes golden use of the English language. With this exception, however, the downtown offerings generally range from pretentious to overtly sheckel-minded. An example of a play with static ideas and superficial newness is Genet's The Balcony, one of off-Broadway's biggest hits. Despite its pretensions of originality, it bogs down in a miasma of unreality and philosophical despair. The play first states that men patronize brothels not for sexual satisfaction, but in order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into...
Filene's alone employs at least 10 Santa Clauses, some to display toys in the window, some to open their laps to expectant children. The Santa Claus in the window delivers readings from something called "The Good Book," which presumably contains the names of every child in Boston (or at least all those fortunate enough to press their noses against Filene's front window-pane...
...Filene's window-Santas have to worry about working full-time. Every 45 minutes they are spelled by one of two cute little sprigs, both called Miss Holly. Four more Miss Hollys aid Santa inside the store where he carries through his policy of person-to-person diplomacy. On each of the visitors, Miss Holly pins a rectangular piece of cardboard: "Santa's Merit Badge...