Word: barren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington, D.C., Carter-Barren Amphitheater: Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, with Ginger Rogers as the female sharpshooter...
About a month ago one of these gapingly barren windows became cluttered with photos of a young man named Edward M. Kennedy, candidate for the United States Senate...
...Taste of Honey is the story of a girl's bruising search for identity in the barren brick flats of the English poor. As the girl, Rita Tushingham may be the cinemactress find of the year...
...Crossing. That movement is going on now. The average dividend yield on the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average has risen from 3.19% in early January to 3.87%. During the same period, the average yield on ten top-grade bonds in the Barren's index slipped from 4.41% to 4.19% because demand increased as some of the big institutional investors switched out of stocks and into bonds. If this narrowing between yields continues, stocks should become more appealing to investors...
...this may not startle anyone connected with English, but the classical world is almost totally barren of such discussion. It is, in fact, the last field for which the New Criticism is still new. Commager's technique, however, is not that of a neophyte, for he moves with ease from the world of scholia and emendations to that of tone and imagery. At one point he combines the two methods quite neatly, when he uses Horace's consistent seasonal metaphor as evidence to correct a reading suggested by the magisterial Bentley...