Word: neckedness
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Much Hope. Nearly all the assembly's decisions were unanimous. Chairman and newly elected president was Yugoslavia's esteemed, bull-necked Andrija Stampar, rector of the University of Zagreb. He had, said one delegate, a "unanimity complex." He would make assembly procedure a personal issue: "If you have...
One of the ads, addressed to the "hip harness and bosom bolster business," heralded a wartime camouflage cloth impregnated by a top secret process with "a per- manent odor of hibiscus, hydrangea, and old rubber boots." It concluded: "If you want to achieve that careless look and avoid skater'...
Then frail, 65-year-old Composer Kodaly himself, looking like an El Greco with his sunken face and pointed white beard, took the podium to lead the orchestra and two choruses in the work which first won him fame. When it was over, Education Minister Gyula Oretetay presented the composer...
When Edwina Marsh was a teenager, her father had once said: "My girl, don't be a fool-put your shoulders back, hold up your head, and don't be ashamed to show the world that you are shaped as a woman ought to be." But all her...
Sleepy Hollow (based on Washington living's Legend of Sleepy Hollow; book & lyrics by Russell Maloney, Miriam Battista and Ruth Hughes Aarons; music by George Lessner; produced by Lorraine Lester) is passably tuneful and monumentally tedious. Washington Irving's famous yarn of lanky, spindle-necked Ichabod Crane-who...