Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Greenwood down to Jackson...My first real taste of the Mississippi sun dropping westward ever so slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to...
Still, he is wonderful in the give and take of press conferences and other question-and-answer occasions. And in these, he seems to recover all the confidence he has lost during more stilted sessions. Asked last week about all the criticisms of his conservative views, Barry replied like the...
The University sleeps; it has not yet acknowledged the glorious purposes which may still be served by its magical contraption on Brattle Street. The suggestion that Gaethe's Faust be performed annually at the Loeb Drama Center has been advanced before, by no less an alumnus than Lucien Price, but...
Dunster and Leverett had the highest rates of satisfied customers, but Dunster also drew some caustic complaints. Eliot reported a similar majority of contented residents, but here complaints that the student body was "stilted and narrow," came repeatedly.
Frantic Phonetics. "Christmas!" exclaims James Cartwright ("JC") Holland, "You'd think an intelligent, redblooded, white, church-going non-Communist like I ... would avoid ending up in the nude." JC, who tells about half the story in a stilted diary, is risibly riddled with middle-class hypocrisy. He believes in...