Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shades of red and other colors, including blue and black ink, Blackley decided to start printing checks on red paper. When the checks were made out, the ink would be perfectly visible against the rosy-hued ground. But when the draft was microfilmed, he figured, it would become a blank; anything written or printed would disappear...
Their context is a remark by Stephane Mallarme: "The intellectual core of a poem conceals itself, is present-is active-in the blank space which separates the stanzas and in the white of the paper: a pregnant silence, no less wonderful to compose than the lines themselves...
Says Rafto, "The people who are invited to camp are" (pausing just long enough for Mark Meyer to fill in the blank with "crazy") "expected to be ready...
...Lowell denies himself most of the strongest weapons in his arsenal: the lushness of language and images that once re-created New England cemeteries and seacoasts, an ear unmatched among his contemporaries for the off-rhythms that can be made to rattle in the sonorities of a line of blank verse...
Finally the NNs hit on an ingenious solution. In a working agenda and timetable paper, a blank line was inserted between the clause dealing with rights and that dealing with detente. The Russians were satisfied because no new punctuation was introduced, and the Americans were pleased because compliance was clearly established as topic...