Word: sheepskin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memoir is an incomparable record of the weird and wonderful Russian nobility, compared with whom the pious, drunken, sheepskin-clad serfs seemed like another race. The Czar's ramshackle empire was made up of three other races-the merchants, who were much like merchants anywhere; the official class, whose devotion to sacred paper could be compared only to a Tibetan monk operating a prayer wheel; and the student and professional intelligentsia, politically zealous to a pitch of almost mystical intensity...
...mugged girl turns out to be a bugged housewife (Anne Jackson) with even more identity crises than he. She is surrounded by mink coats, but only wants a sheepskin to prove that she has a mind. He is merely a hero-worshiping intellectual-his walls are covered with pictures of Napoleon, Schweitzer and Einstein-who wants to be a womanizing tiger...
Last week, after a Boston newspaper disclosed Walter's secret, he shyly insisted that it was "no great feat." Harvard didn't think it was so great either. Apparently annoyed at having the sheepskin pulled over their eyes, Harvard authorities notified him that he would not be recommended for a law degree this year, "pending an investigation." M.I.T. administrators had learned Walter's secret last fall, but had permitted him to continue, even though one official said that he would never have been enrolled if authorities had known of his Harvard enrollment. "It just would have been...
Yevtushenko has been applauded in the West as a free anarchic spirit against Stalinism. But sometimes, when he dreams of "Hindus in machine-gun wagons/ And Peruvians in helmets and sheepskin jerkins," or when he visualizes Marshal Budenny "galloping all over Africa,/ And I, of course, galloping right after him," the effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please...
...oozing craters. The extra nursing care that is called for costs thousands of dollars, and insurance companies allot 25% of expenses in all spinal-cord injuries for bedsore treatment alone. Serious and persistent as it is, the bedsore problem is usually handled by a method that is decades old: sheepskin sheets that soften pressure on patients and permit air to circulate under their bodies. Today, several young doctors have rediscovered and redesigned a discarded system for floating bedsores away...