Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walking through the Yard during Commencement Week, you pass countless numbers of "classmates" and assorted family in town for their twenty-fifth reunion. Workmen clatter chairs in Tercentenary Theatre and student porters wander from building to building and House to House carrying baggage, playing baby-sitter and being generally affable...
...Nichts, Nullus, niente, as the life here. Australians are always vaguely and meaninglessly on the go. That's what the life in a new country does to you: it makes you so material, so outward, that your real inner life and your inner self dies out, and you clatter around like so many mechanical animals... Yet the weird, unawakened country is wonderful...
...woman's right to have a career." Radcliffe women are more than ever aware of the implications of their ambitions, more than ever concerned about what it means to be a woman at male-oriented Harvard. As they sadly watch hopes of merger with a one-to-one ratio clatter to the ground beside visions of a beneficent, responsive Harvard, many of them begin to change their focus of questioning from what it was two years ago. Instead of asking "What do we have to gain?" they more cautiously consider "What do we have to lose by merging with Harvard...
Died. Richard Kollmar, 60, former Broadway producer and longtime radio actor best known for his portrayal of the title role in Boston Blackie and Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick, a daily talk show in which he and his late wife, Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, would chat intimately over the clatter of morning dishes; in Manhattan...
...Mehta, the temptation was irresistible. Vacationing with his wife in northern Kenya, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's conductor was treated to a native concert by members of the Turkana tribe. Mehta listened intently to the rhythm: the click of bottle-cap anklets on wildly swinging legs, the imperious clatter of bamboo sticks, the thunderclap of hands, the keening from scores of female throats. Then, having convinced himself that he had picked up the beat, he raised his practiced arm and for a few fascinating measures conducted some of the world's oldest and most primitive music...