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Word: betwixt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world where real things happen to fleshandblood people. But soft, a voice harkens unto me: SON, FORGET IT. "It ain't so great to be on the outside," the logic flows, "stay awhile and be protected by mother Harvard." And so I remain ambivalent, undecided, shuttling in that twilight betwixt the real and the unreal...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...world where real things happens to fleshandblood people. But soft, a voice harkens unto me: SON, FORGET IT. "It ain't so great to be on the outside," the logic flows, "stay awhile and be protected by mother Harvard." And so I remain ambivalent, undecided, shuttling in that twilight betwixt the real and the unreal...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 6/12/1968 | See Source »

...votes, Mrs. Ewing became the first member of the Scottish National Party to go to Britain's Parliament since 1945. "Now it's home rule by 1970," she said, advocating independence for Scotland inside the Commonwealth and a seat in the United Nations betwixt Saudi Arabia and Senegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scotland: The North Rises Again | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...Betwixt and between, he dashed off four comic essays for The New Yorker, appeared on numerous TV shows at $10,000 a shot, played Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for $25,000 a week, turned out two bestselling comedy albums, and lent his owlish visage to several advertisements ranging from Smirnoff's vodka to Foster Grant sunglasses. Now he is completing a new nightclub act as well as a play about "a happily neurotic love affair." This summer he plans to begin work on Take the Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Woody, Woody, Everywhere | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...quality that gives bite to the blues, soulin' is a Rawls specialty. His style is all his own. Drawing from a mixed bag of songs, he improvises effortlessly within a three-octave range, spiraling up to a keening, gospel wail, then swooping down to a gritty, resonant bottom. Betwixt and between, he intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame." The tumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Soulin' & Sweet-Talkin' | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

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