Word: swiftness
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...many of the 15 Miss Marple novels, these people are just swift sketches. But readers savor them. Miss Marple herself is a fairly complex character and the one dearest to the author. She has changed somewhat over the years- but never enough to resemble the more boisterous, vulgar character played so well on the screen by Margaret Rutherford...
More and more, tennis is the sport in which American domestic hopes most visibly converge and conflict, the recreation that most remarkably reveals those double-fault lines in American marriage?a want of kindness, a shortage of manners. The swift transformation of a game once played mainly by the happy few?mannerly, immaculately clad and, to the popular mind, a bit sissified?into a mass middle-class mania, which may soon be pursued by more women than men, has already worked a number of apparently permanent small changes in American social life...
...Pousette-Dart Band. Avery, very fine band that will make you forget all about Fleetwood Mac--don't miss this if you can. Tonight and tomorrow, at Jonathan Swift...
John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys. Ever present and always fine, August 15 at Jonathan Swift...
...insult each other by casting aspersions on their mothers or by turning "feminine" characteristics into epithets like "sissy" and worse.Once-honorable words like queen, madam and mistress have, in fact, been tarred with salacious connotations that their male counterparts-king, sir and master-have escaped. Sometimes Miller and Swift's complaints are plain silly. The authors sniff linguistic oppression in the fact that women are said to "marry into" families; the same thing, of course, is said of men when they hitch up to richer or more prominent clans. Prince Phillip "married into" the British royal family. Sargent Shriver...