Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a pity, for Sillitoe is a writer of considerable talent: an ingenious storyteller, a stylist and, best of all, a genuinely rebellious spirit. Now, with a bow to Defoe and Fielding, he offers a cheerful picaresque novel subtitled "the ordinary and not so ordinary adventures of a bastard and a proletarian . . . when the star of his destiny takes him to London and sundry places...
...operations. An executive of Lockheed spoke bluntly for many other firms. Just before learning that the British-made Rolls-Royce engines for Lockheed's L-1011 jetliner will be subjected to the 10% import tax he exploded: "The whole goddam nation is confused over the plan, and we bow to no one in our confusion...
...which already has four former priests on its faculty. But so far Daniel Maguire's long battle is ended only in the ecclesiastical and academic areas. His witty and strong-willed mother, Cassie, 80, matriarch of the Philadelphia Irish family, is willing to admit that the Pope may bow to pressure now and again and let a priest have his way. But she just may take her own good time before granting her dispensation...
Neither agency will bow to the other's choice for the sake of having a single symbol. Meantime, a Ford Motor Co. designer named Elwood Engel argues for eliminating both Johnny and Woodsy. His proposed substitute: Ollie and Polly, "the oxygen molecules with the message...
...vertical tubes that rim the rear of the stage. Some seats are as high as six feet; no two are in the same sight line. It pleases the players that each of them is entirely visible to the audience, although a trombonist who gets up carelessly to take a bow can easily topple to the floor...