Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They came back to Cambridge when I was at Provincetown teaching a lovely blonde the difference between existentialism and activationism. It was cool there...
...here it was sweltering, with days so hot they wondered how they could hear it. Each day that passed, a few of them found some excuse for going back to the cool spots they had just left. Or others, like Johnny West and Carl Bottenfield, were eliminated for reasons beyond their control. Still others with brittle legs found themselves in hospitals. But most of them stayed on, were off fat, and beat the hell out of each other...
...same issue contained a full-page ad for Camels ("See if your throat doesn't welcome Camel's cool, cool mildness") and one for Philip Morris ("The only leading cigarette to be proved definitely and measurably less irritating...
...cool, keen eye for the construction of things in nature and on paper makes Karasz' designs consistently acceptable, but like any artist she hits her peak only occasionally. One of the best papers in last week's show, a linear, oriental-seeming study of ducks in long grass (see cut), was inspired just back of her Brewster, N.Y. house. "We had a pair of yellow ducks," she explained, "and the children were chasing them. All I had to do was put it down. Things often come that way, but of course I understood how the blades of grass...
Exasperated Man. The.first letter in the book is a cool request to the governor of Virginia (written when Poe was 15) asking that the Richmond Junior Volunteers, in which he was a lieutenant, be allowed to keep their arms. It sets the tone for the book. Poe's letters were brisk and businesslike-requests for books to review, offers to sell stories, proposals to start new literary magazines, attempts to wangle copy from contributors like Longfellow, Hawthorne, or James Russell Lowell. When Poe became editor of Graham's Magazine it had 5,000 subscribers. When he left...