Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apropos of "New Punctuation Mark" [July 21]: no doubt the interabang fills the need of some writers, although I can usually make do with a simple exclamation point. More needful, I think, is the pronequark. The kind of sentence that demands the pronequark arises quite frequently. It looks like this: "May I ask you to print this in an early issue...
...easy to see how French audiences might take the play to their hearts, not to mention their livers. A nation of hypochrondiacs might well find it plausible and even grimly amusing to watch Dr. Knock make the well ill. But Boston's large English-speaking sector will no doubt find it a silly bore...
...portion of the film is the last. For this much of the credit goes to the marvelous chorus of avenging Furies, whose frightening makeup, snakepit writhings and almost surrealistic dancing are worthy even of Dante's Inferno. The play itself is a real suspense thriller, with the outcome in doubt. It builds up to the theatre's first trial by jury, a device that is still proving useful to dramatists 2500 years later...
While American population statistics are among the very finest in the world, papers presented to the Conference have established beyond reasonable doubt that the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and to a lesser degree, the Vital Statistics of the United States, seriously and significantly under-enumerate or under-estimate the size of the Negro, Puerto-Rican and Mexican-American populations. As much as 10 per cent of the Negro population may not have been counted in the 1960 Census, and there is considerable probability that the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American were similarly under-counted...
...locked up-and attention at Newport switched to the Australian challengers. If the America's Cup were awarded for beauty, the sleek green-and-gold Dame Pattie would win easily. If it were awarded for brass, Skipper Jock Sturrock would be well in the lead. He left no doubt that he expects to win come September. But if the cup is awarded for tactics, it is likely to wind up in Bus Mosbacher's bag of tricks...