Word: bows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie runs two places in the Square: Charlie's Place (1 Bow St.) and Charlie's Kitchen (10 Eliot St.). Both attract a lot of high school kids out on their first drinking flings. But Charlie's Kitchen has probably the best bar food in the Square. Upstairs there is always room for groups of seven to ten people and the food is definitely a cut above greasy spoon quality...
...stanced uneven gait, and the black-bordered and lace-trimmed handkerchief in which he sequesters Olivia's ring. His celebrated yellow-stocking scene is severely marred, though, by the absence of the prescribed cross-garters. What's the idea of trying to make do with a pair of ordinary bow-knotted circlets around the knees when the text refers nine times to cross-gartering? F'shame...
...crossbow, in other words, going from a state of alert readiness to a situation less tense but still ready for a fight. The Russian word razriadka has a similar meaning. Translated into political terms, both words connote a relaxation of tension, a willingness to at least lower the raised bow without necessarily cozying up to the other side...
Time on the Cross is offered not as a complete history but as a corrective. The authors bow to the need for psychological studies. They are clearly aware that their statistical base is sometimes small and that their inferences about average well-being on the plantation is morally irrelevant to the outrage of slavery, the psychological anguish it caused, and the agonized voices of indi vidual slaves that have come down from the dark past. Yet the authors, generally moderate, are quite merciless when dealing with what they regard as the fumbling ignorance of Stampp, Elkins and Phillips...