Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"I had to go to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York. But I refused, it was humiliating for me to take part in a spectacle Like that. I was a formalist, a representative of an antinational direction in music. My music was banned, and now...
In seeming to uphold American political traditions, Podhoretz and his allies have been dubbed "neo-conservatives," a label that causes them some discomfort. Podhoretz continues to claim to be a liberal; it is the radicals, he insists, who became illiberal. Such quib bling may be of greater interest to the...
The schoolboys in question have been around since the early '30s, when Sidney Joseph Perelman first began publishing his superbly crafted hilarity in the pages of The New Yorker. The magazine's readers soon developed a tart tooth for Perelman's brand of satire, a mix of...
Boggling figures of that sort have been popular as curiosities ever since Archimedes tried to calculate how many grains of sand the universe could contain (1051, he said). Today, however, mind-walloping numbers are no longer oddities; they are the stuffing of ordinary news and public discourse. While even the...
The score became 2-0 with 25:02 remaining on the clock as Harvard tallied a goal that might have been called "While Tigers Sleep." John Sanacore took a free kick from the left-wing and an apparently unmarked Michael Smith raced towards the far post to direct a beautiful...