Word: bag
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...collection of letters can be a grab bag-or a distinguished book. Sometimes the grab-bag approach results in your flaying the editor. Why not, then, celebrate the impeccable, imaginative editing that has produced Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters [Jan. 21]? Here the art of editing included the locating, sorting, choosing from and annotating the extant correspondence of history's most prolific letter writer, and creating a brilliant epistolary biography. Dan Laurence deserved more than merely having his name printed (in reduced type) with the descriptive matter at the head of your review...
This was a grab bag within a grab bag. Among other things, the President called for 1) a Highway Safety Act to cut down on traffic deaths, 2) a plan to "rebuild entire sections and neighborhoods" in some U.S. cities as well as "stimulate and reward planning for the growth of entire metropolitan areas," 3) an end to pollution of rivers, 4) an attack on "crime and lawlessness" through a federal program to "modernize and strengthen local police forces," 5) a bill requiring honest labels on packages, 6) a program demanding that all interest and credit charges be fully revealed...
With his wife on one arm and $1,500 in a plastic bag under the other, he plunked down the electoral filing fee in Little Rock nearly four months before the legal deadline. Winthrop is bound and determined that the boy from Greazy Creek, Governor Orval Faubus, will never again defeat him the way he did in the 1964 gubernatorial race. Faubus has not said whether he will try for a seventh term, but his friends have a feeling that he is the only Democrat in the state who can keep Republican Rockefeller down on the farm...
...them," George Bernard Shaw once told his American publisher. There were, in fact, more than 250,000. Six hundred and ninety-one are printed in this volume, and three more volumes are on the way. Shaw was what is called today a compulsive writer; he carried a cloth bag of unanswered correspondence about with him, to be dipped into and answered at any idle moment-"scrawled in trains, between acts, in fragments to amuse you at breakfast," he wrote. They will astonish today's telephone generation, which normally does not get letters at breakfast even if it has time...
...when Jack Garrity rammed in a perfect pass across the crease from Bob Fredo at 11:15 the slaughter was on. By the time the first period ended Harvard had a 4-0 lead, and the only question remaining was how many scalps Cooney Weiland's boys would bag...