Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...d be perfectly content to live in an ugly house if it were functional," Boston City Councillor Thomas I. Atkins said last night...
...very, very witty, a most unexpected, surprising man. He'd take off with anyone he thought knew all about X and keep him up to three o'clock in the morning. By that time he'd found out what he wanted to know about X and he could use it. What he was finding out was which words one couldn't do without, and he worked away on which words one can do without. If you can substitute a phrase of ten words for a given word, however technical and abstruse, then you can do without it. That...
...good point, that--Milton being at about the turning point. After Milton, I think you'd agree, things became more intelligible. Professional instruction, as it were in English Literature, might very well stop soon after Milton. There's obviously a case for people being taught how to read Chaucer; people don't get into Chaucer just by the light of nature, not as well as they do into Tennyson. I see no excuse for tremendous courses on Tennyson. I'm a great admirer of Tennyson, but I think courses haven't helped him and won't. Milton's the turning...
...government a quarter century earlier when I arrived at the Capitol as a newly elected member of Congress." That's the first sentence in the book. It is a little frightening. (One imagines LBJ at the first meeting of his Cabinet saying, "Now there's one little item I'd like to bring up. It's a project that's been on my mind for some time. I've called it the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Marshalls are Eleanor Thomas Hobbs of 24 Peabody Terrace and North Hills, Pa.; Anne D. Aylward of 24 Garden St., and Washington, D.C.; Judith L. Mumma of Wolbach Hall and Bellingham, Wash.; Anne Catesby Jones of 7 Greenough St. and Brighton; Katherine L. Miller of 23 Gray St. and Palo Alto, Calif.; and Mary J. Geothals of Jordan J and Watertown. House Athletics Hockey W L PTS Winthrop 9 2 20 Leverett 8 3 17 Eliot 8 3 16 Dunster 7 3 14 Lowell 6 5 13 Kirkland 3 4 6 Adams 1 7 2 Dudley 1 7 2 Quincy...