Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just stayed in my little cage reading a book," said Lonoff...
...revised and enlarged edition had statements that were made as recently as 1977. "O, Joy of Joys!" I cried, as I clasped my latest possession to my chest, and I eagerly perused the end of the book for the quotations taken from the 1960s and 1970s, those decades of unforgettable utterances...
...people whose sayings must be collected as a "valuable resource...for the speaker, writer, and student," as the book jacket says? Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger, Joni Mitchell and Janis Joplin, just to name...
Stevie Wonder, however, is not the real problem. The problem is the judgment of the Bartlett's editors, who have put together a book which one hopes would show cultural progress but instead indicates cultural decay. Who cares if Muhammed Ali said, "I am the greatest?" Lots of other arrogant jerks have also said the same thing, but I don't see any cross-references...
...Harvard sports fan needed a dictionary. In 1989, the fan might need a book on popular culture in the 1980s (People magazine...