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...second-row seat. She spent the morning coloring clowns, apples and horses, played and lunched with her classmates. She came home happy. "I believe I'm going to like it there," she said gravely. "It's a nice big school and some of the children said 'Hi...
Having kneaded the same sort of upper crust in four books before this one. Author Auchincloss seems unaware that his people are increasingly dull anachronisms. Hi; careful, courtly prose almost manages to confer dignity, but in the end his novel is like the great Newport mansions it recalls -elaborately ornamented in its facade too dry and dusty inside for a modern generation to bother about...
...midmorning lunch, she used the French words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said: "Now we are pigeons, and we make a little nest on the desk with our arms." Then she played hi-fi classical records, hoping to spur "appreciation for music throughout later life...
While politics is always the trunk line, his humor ranges everywhere. Crazes craze him. His masterpiece on hi-fi ends with a family living in their garage and using the house as a speaker. When he read that people were daubing themselves with instant skin tan, he moaned: "If you can't believe in the sun, what can you believe in?" Psychoanalytic clichés are seldom spared. Once, says Sahl, a bank robber slipped the teller a note saying: "Give me your money and act normal." The teller replied: "First you must define your terms. After all, what...
...month alimony to Sue, who divorced him in 1957 and now dates his best friend, Jazz Saxophonist Paul Desmond. Once short on toys, he can no longer make the claim, has filled his rented home in West Hollywood's hills with 14 radios, four TV sets and two hi-fi sets that blare until 4 a.m., wearing out his Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck records. The unshaven campus rat looking for work has become a hard-working future millionaire in need of a shave: he attacks himself twice a day with one of eleven electric razors. Standing...