Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like? I wish they'd been in it!" Turner's most Leonardesque aspect was the deep pessimism that went with his long investigation of nature. In the works of his maturity, human life is merely an eddy in elemental time. His love of full-bore catastrophe is indicated by the most Turneresque of all his titles, an Alpine scene: Snowstorm, Avalanche and Inundation (1837). But the painted results of his pessimism were of an indescribable grandeur and poignancy. He was rooted in his own time and society. Moreover, he was sure that that society-optimistic, promethean England with...
...walked out onto the Exchange floor the morning after Black Thursday and placed the most famous order in Exchange history, "205 for Steel," a half-hearted attempt by the big banks to put a floor under the Market. It was Whitney who, in the years after the Crash, bore the chief brunt of the Congressional investigations into stock market practices. As he grew more and more ultraconservative and self-confident about the financial world of Wall Street's Old Guard (at one point he told a Congressional committee the Stock Exchange was "a perfect institution"), Whitney's personal affairs deteriorated...
...most readers who truly would like to know about the situation are getting their minds boggled by the avalanche of different facts. I won't bore you with any more. But I would like to tell you a little about what I know and feel about the farmworkers' situation in the Salinas Valley. I've lived in Salinas most of my life, the Salinas Valley all of my life and I've worked "out in the fields" the past five summers. The past two summers I've worked on a Hansen Farms lettuce crew (Teamster) and during this period...
...think I am dying." Actually Lady Lucan, 35, was not grievously wounded. When police searched her five-story town house, however, they found the body of the family's 29-year-old nanny stuffed into a canvas bag in the dining room; her head and body bore the marks of a fatal beating...
Some noted that the nanny bore a close resemblance to Lady Lucan, and there was speculation that the murderer, in the dark or in his anger, may have mistaken her for Lady Lucan, who then surprised him by suddenly appearing on the scene. Perhaps the only person who can clear matters up is Lord Lucan. At week's end he was still being sought, and there were rumors that he was either outside the country or had done "the honorable thing," as one of his friends phrased it, and had shot himself...