Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Hawkins, playing third, turned in a respectable score of 78 but had to hang on for dear life to come up with a split. His Penn opponent was even par on the last 12 holes after a bad start and edged out Hawkins, 3 and 1. His Lion opponent finished one over on the last 14, but this time Hawkins prevailed...
...DEAR JOHN. The urgent biochemistry between a robust sailor (Jarl Kulle) on the make and a girl (Christina Schollin) who probably won't say no is analyzed to near-perfection by Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren, a sensitive defender of the thesis that sex sometimes precedes love...
...Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters. In 15 novels of cunning construction and lapidary eloquence, Evelyn Waugh developed a wickedly hilarious and yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world. God it had killed and in his stead had raised up gadgets; and in gadgets had gone haring into outer space to hide from an inner vacuity unbearable to contemplate. Reflected in his icy eye, a mad world knew that it was mad, but it has recently suspected...
...reissue its haunting license. But there are still better reasons. In the game of suspense, Mistress Radcliffe can tease with the best of them, and in the art of natural description she can pile a crag or plummet a chasm with any man short of Scott himself. True, the dear lady is one of the ickiest prigs who ever put quill to scented paper. Yet if in 1794 her virginal vaporings came on as symptoms of high sensibility, in 1966 they come off as conventions of high comedy. All unintentionally, Udolpho is one of the funniest books ever written...
...action of the story and whose death ends it, marries a failure who eventually beats her and nearly drives her insane--but she can't let The Group know she's made an unsuccessful marriage. Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) is fat, funny, and fertile (two sets of twins, my dear), and finally, Lakey (Candace Bergen) is the aloof aesthete who is a lesbian...