Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices on the dinner menu are outrageously hiked from lunch. It does, however, contain an assortment of fish dishes. The salmon ($4.75) was bony and overcooked. Although delicately herbed, the sauce was runny and insipid. The Soft Shell Crabs ($4.95) came swimming in butter. What should have been the crispy claws and backs of these unusual creatures were soggy...
Boston Pops Esplanade Concert. HATCH SHELL (by the Charles River) Tues., Fri. Sat. eves...
...perfect Pilgrim--an ordinary Joe, likeable to the core, without an ounce of bellicosity in him, wanting to fill a need for people in more ways than being an optometrist. He has an unsynched walk and awry grin before Dresden, but ages believably into a self-controlled human shell who finds outlet for his bank of sympathy by raising a dog named Spot. He is ably supported by Eugene Roche's Derby, a solid man who's based his life on Christian principle (though not aware of its shaky national foundation), moving with that authority even when threatened...
...left in the town, none with a solid roof. There is no running water or electricity. Every street is shattered by artillery craters and littered with the detritus of a battle that saw a bit of every kind of war. Everywhere you walk you hear the crackle of shifting shell fragments when you put your foot down. There are not more than half a dozen vehicles left that still function, and when I arrived, only one of those, a Jeep, had all four tires. All the others move fast enough, given the condition of the streets, on their wheel rims...
...make speeches ... judge literary contests ... give interviews ... autograph books for strangers ... donate copies of his books to libraries . . . contribute to symposiums of any kind ... supply personal information about himself"). Critic Alfred Kazin suggests that "anyone so extraordinarily gifted, and obsessed with words, must have grown up deep inside the shell that his own gift created around...