Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always echoing the symmetry of ritual and the stately, pure English prose of the reformed liturgies composed by Thomas Cranmer for King Edward VI. Cranmer's 1549 Prayer Book has had almost as great an influence on English prose as the King James Bible, and its stately collects remain one of man's finest efforts to address his Creator reverently. Last Sunday's collect, for example...
Shared Burden. Norman Moonbloom is "New York's most educated rent collector," with degrees from Wisconsin, McGill, Mexico and Bowdoin. His heart, if anywhere, is in his boots as he trudges each week through the Lower East Side and Yorkville to collect rent in cash and to issue promises that some thing (the toilet, the walls, the fusebox, or whatever) will be fixed. It never...
Insects and small fish we call and collect...
This Year at Marienbad. The satellites also gain hard money through a remittance system by which a Westerner can send cash or scarce medicines to his aged grandmother in Bulgaria or buy up to 20 acres of land for his family in Poland. All of them collect hard money in the West for parcels that are delivered in the East. Poland is the leader in this mail-order trade, which is supported mostly by the 6,000,000 Polish-descended Americans and has the double purpose of sucking in hard money and keeping down local pressure for consumer goods...
...Costly. As for Russia, it will collect close to $10 million from an expected 13,000 British and 12,000 American tourists this year. But tourists from the Continent generally prefer the satellites because Russia has relatively few beach resorts and is costly. Russia really has less need of the visitors. Whenever it wants extra dollars, it simply sells from its reserves of well over $4 billion worth of Soviet-mined gold. Sales of Red gold in the West have been averaging $200 million a year lately, a fact that ironically helps the U.S. by lessening foreign demand for American...