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Word: driftings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no time left to write poems. If you will write rallying cries, yes, do so, otherwise write poems then throw yourselves on the river to drift away...

Author: By Jonathan Galassi, | Title: Lyrics Bill Knott and James Tate | 10/16/1970 | See Source »

...make out words. Two boys, wild with the dark, swim near to listen, from the island where they have been camping. As they approach the neighboring island of the voices, a splash betrays them. The heavy voice rages. A shot slaps the water. The boys dive, frog-swim, drift, reach shore, and lie safe and ignorant in the chill. What were the voices saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Early Death | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

French newspapers called it "the Battle of Bordeaux." What began as a routine by-election set for this week to elect a Deputy to the French National Assembly has turned into a fracas that could change the drift of French politics for some time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Politics Bordelaise | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Universities today are the focus of national attention. Campus disorders, attacks by Spiro Agnew, the peace movement, and the campaigns of menlike Ronald Reagan are indications of just how much university activity is key to the political drift of America...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Harvard-The Divided University | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...after. There are no full-fleshed characters, but the book is scaled like a snake with glittering little momentary selves: studio Eskimos, horseparlor dwarfs, rentable Texans and a legion of sad-eyed nobodies who have "come to California to die." Eros is their ethos, violence their pastime. They drift toward a climax in which a holy idiot stomps a depraved child actor and in turn is torn to pieces by a giggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Great Despiser | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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