Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis is expert, as always. But it is the kids themselves (recruited from the New York City streets) who give the ring of truth to this glossy rendering of Bel Kaufman's novel about a teacher's problems in a slum-area high school. THE THIEF OF PARIS. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a burglar in turn-of-the-century France, manages only to steal the picture, which, because of its disjointedness, just misses being worth the effort...
...social hazards of having had a steady Negro beau. At Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington, she edited the yearbook and made the honors category every year. By last fall, when she was ready to enter Stanford, she and Guy were informally engaged. She wore no engagement ring, but brought Guy around the State Department's seventh floor so that her father's secretaries could meet the fellow she had talked about so often. Guy never formally asked the Rusks for her hand. When Peggy and Guy decided last winter to marry, they simply told their parents...
...businesses run from the ordinary, like the Harvard Stadium Concessions and the Harvard Class Ring Agency, to the intriguing, like the Information Gathering Service, which conducts surveys and undertakes translations. And HSA's businessmen range from the more or less indifferent student who takes the HSA job because the work is interesting and the pay is good to the high-powered, high-geared super-salesman who enjoys wheeling and dealing and is attracted by potentially high salaries...
Secretaries scurry about the HSA offices in the cellar of the Esquire Theater, phones ring, personnel move ponderously up and down the corridors. The red wooden doors constantly open and shut. It's all very busy and all that's missing is an executive washroom...
...call up a friend there who happens to be a manager, the dulcet voice receptionist announces "I'll ring Mr.--'s line for you." Another sweet female voice answers, "Mr.--'s office." By this time you've stopped calling your friend by his first name and starting calling him "Mister...