Word: wrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That & the Flag. Taking what some listeners interpreted as swipes at Presidential Candidates Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater, Scranton warned that the G.O.P. must avoid both "me-tooing the Democrats" and a benighted "do-nothingism" whose credo is that "America's problems will disappear if we all merely wrap ourselves in the Stars and Stripes." Instead, he said, the party must foster change, but in its own way. "We can devise a hundred different bold new attacks on the problems of America, and we can do it without going outside the framework of the Constitution and the Federal principle...
Sarah Caldwell was neglecting herself again. Her hair was stringy and matted, her clothes unbelievably shabby. She was keeping alive on a daily ration of one dozen hamburgers, with suitable amounts of coffee and Cokes. On nights when she worked till dawn, she would wrap herself up in her overcoat, ease her 300 Ibs. down into one of the aisles of her theater, and sleep. Her friends would find her there in the morning, vaguely punchy but ready for work...
...weakness as an author," Conrad Aiken asks in Blue Voyage, "that I appear incapable of presenting a theme energetically and simply. I must always wrap it up in tissue upon tissue of proviso and aspect; see it from a hundred angles . . . producing in the end not so much a unitary work of art as a phantasmagoric world of disordered colors and sounds; a world without design or purpose...
...report the use of Saran Wrap as a male contraceptive, but such improvisation seems hardly necessary, since birth control devices of all kinds are sold freely, often at supermarkets. Parents have been known to buy diaphragms for their daughters (although in Cleveland recently, a woman was arrested for giving birth control information to her delinquent daughter...
...vision of lamentation and gnashing of teeth, of men who said sleep, sleep, but got no sleep, of fear and dread, of nameless horrors, for verily it was the examinations period and the poor damned souls had no CRIMSON to assuage their miseries, banish their grief, or even to wrap their fish and cover their nakedness (see page one) except for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays...