Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't usually prove much to study results against common opponents, but it's the only barometer available. Northeastern beat Harvard by one point. Brown beat Northeastern by 22, and Yale beat Brown...
...during a severe depression, its founders had enough faith in the future of New England letters to take the risk. The company at first leaned heavily on law-and textbooks, publishing some of the most famous U.S. legal treatises, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Common Law. Gradually it moved into general literature, publishing Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Emily Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared in 1890. Among Little, Brown's current authors are Samuel...
Little, Brown will remain headquartered on Boston's Beacon Street, in the old Cabot family residence overlooking the Boston Common. Nor are any changes in management planned; Arthur H. Thornhill Jr. will remain as president. Little, Brown will also continue to issue some 35 books a year jointly with the Atlantic Monthly Press, which publishes the Atlantic Monthly magazine. "We are confident," said Thornhill, "that this affiliation with Time Inc. will enable us to expand our publishing operations and meet the increased professional and general demands for materials of all kinds...
Holy War. One common objection to the war is that the U.S. is wrong in principle in trying to save South Viet Nam from Communism, especially since, it is claimed, there is no clear proof that the Saigon government represents the will of the people. Few if any of the antiwar clerics advocate handing the country directly over to Hanoi, but they argue that the U.S. has no divine mandate to use war to prevent the spread of Communism. Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College argues that the U.S. anti-Communist policy...
...Oxford don, Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is whacking bad at human relations but so cracking good at puzzle solving that the government employs him to find a cure for the common code used by enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like...