Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations to halt a panicky run on the pound, Britain's currency rallied on New York exchanges to a high of $2.7929. But that was still below its par strength of $2.80, and for the basic cause of the sickness-Britain's longtime negative trade balance-no cure was in sight...
...devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception of a Roman Villa," where homosexuality...
...Federal Bulldozer is worth the time it takes you to get from the cover-picture of a fierce neighborhood-destroyer caught in the act, to the back-flap photo of the author, who looks the picture of innocence. Anderson dispels the long-standing myth that urban renewal is a cure-all for city housing problems. It is regrettable that he builds so many myths...
Trusty Trustees. Conant's cure for such shortsightedness is the creation of an "Interstate Commission for Planning a Nationwide Educational Policy." The commission, as Conant envisions it, ought to be a formal compact approved by Congress and composed of representatives chosen by the states-not educators but rather distinguished citizens such as those that serve as trustees of topnotch universities...
Nominally novels, William Burroughs' works are, more precisely, potluck: the cauldron, having flipped its lid, spills nightmare fantasies, sick jokes, narcotic dreams and polemics against pushers and in favor of the apomorphine cure. And, of course, concedes the author, "obscenity is coldly added as the total weapon...