Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Joyce," said George Bluestone in Novels Into Films, "would seem as absurd on film as Chaplin would in print." Chaplin is probably not the most apt comparison to Joyce--Fellini or Bergman are more appropriate. One would be hard put to translate 8 1/2 or Persona into print and still...
An American population expert yesterday predicted that ecological disaster would result from man's inability to cope with the world's increasing population.
Fat, untidy and crapulous, Švejk is a natural disaster as a soldier. He drinks anything that is not nailed down, eats anything that is not moving, and flummoxes disciplinarians and exhorters by admitting everything instantly-always at great length and with illustrations. Hašek's Švejk...
In flat bureaucratic prose, the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency issued an order last week directing flight crews on all McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 jumbo jets to make certain that the cargo holds of their planes are locked and properly sealed before they take off. Behind those words may well be...
Emily, as well as Eliot's family back in St. Louis, was jolted by the news in 1915 that the 27-year-old student had married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, an Englishwoman of his own age about whom they knew nothing. She was pretty, intense, to some degree artistic, talented...