Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bird Johnson came last weekend when handsome Screen Actor Hamilton brought his girl home to meet Mother. The occasion was Lynda's 22nd birthday. Assembled in the $200,000 house, once owned by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, were 125 show business celebrities, among them Greer Garson, Natalie Wood, Elke Sommer, Bobby Darin, Jill St. John and Eddie Fisher, who obliged by singing Linda ("When I go to sleep...
Horror & Rejoycing. Degradation and death followed swiftly upon conviction. The victim was led to the stake and the horror began. Foxe reports one execution in which a woman was forced to set fire to her own father, and others where the wood was green and burned so slowly that the victim, as in the case of Bishop John Hooper, was still conscious: "He was black in the mouth, and his tongue swoln that he could not speak, his lips shrunk to the gums; and he knocked his breast with his hands until one of his arms fell off, what time...
...Dunster Drama Society, established this fall by inexperienced juniors with little money, produced a highly successful interpretation of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood. The same group of amateurs is now at work on Aristophanes' The Frogs. The editors of the new Dunster Political Review were equally successful; in their first issue they produced the most comprehensive discussion of Vietnam policy found in the University this year...
Kirkland fits into neither, or, one might say, both of these classifications. Graced by two Georgian courtyards, a pre-revolutionary wood-frame House library, and the College's most elegant dining hall, Kirkland is never-theless best noted for its vocal, creative membership, its cooperative but un-restrictive administration, and its active, accessible House staff. Yet despite the informal atmosphere, House spirit is extraordinarily strong...
...foremost city. Yet, for all the sanctity surrounding it, this Japanese statue is a bold departure from traditional Chinese elegance. In this Buddha's broad shoulders, strength replaces softness. Carved from a single block of cypress, the sculpture seems to derive its rippling drapery from the wood's grain...