Word: troth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Folk Singer-Pacifist Joan Baez, 27, got married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth. The lucky man was David Harris, 22, ex-president of the Stanford student body who, like his bride, did time in jail after participating in last winter's antidraft demonstrations in Oakland; Harris is also under indictment for refusing induction into the armed forces...
...project well from James Valentine's slim physique; and there is a good deal of Stan Laurel in this droll performance. But how could a director be so derelict as to let Toby's suggestion, "Now let's have a catch," elicit at once Andrew's comment, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast," with nary so much as one phrase of a catch sung between...
...live and teach philosophy in Paris, ready to be aggressively free from the grim bourgeois straitjacket she so compellingly described in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Sartre, 24, the high-priest-to-be of existentialism, was a physically unprepossessing philosopher with an urge to write. The two plighted their troth in what was destined to become one of the strangest and most durable extracurricular alliances of modern times. The Prime of Life is Simone de Beauvoir's account of her own philosophical growth and self-inflicted torments from 1929 to 1944-the first 15 years of her life with...
...troth was plighted in your name To meet my just but modest claim...
...question that once titillated San Francisco gossipists-which twin would get the toniest bachelor on Telegraph Hill?-came the answer last week, when Land Developer John Fell Stevenson, 25, youngest son of the U.S.'s U.N. ambassador, reached the moment of troth with Occasional Interior Decorator Natalie Owings, 22, the less bohemian of the sloe-eyed twin daughters of Architect...