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Word: echo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group, which included Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster. Those earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes of his autobiography-The Golden Echo and Flowers of the Forest. In the present volume he opens, with a necrology-a list of the old familiar faces that disappeared from his world in the 1930s by suicide, bomb, cancer, tetanus, flying, steeplechasing and assorted other agents. The Familiar Faces is their obituary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beautiful Illusion | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

...European Economic Community. Venerable Jean Monnet, the father of the Common Market, took issue with De Gaulle by insisting that Britain should be admitted now because it has already "renounced all preference for the Commonwealth and has agreed to place itself with the Continent." But even Monnet seemed to echo De Gaulle by adding that "we should move toward a unity of action between Europe and America, acting as equal partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Allies: The Regal Rejection | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...generation is thinning out. Casimir's death followed the deaths of Clarinetist Steve Angrum and Drummer Chinee Foster. The jazz played by the remaining old men limps along on failing lips and shortened breath. But even so, the music at Preservation Hall is often better than an echo of what used to be: like the Whoopin' Blues, it is a cheerful way of saying goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Joy at the Last | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

From "Listening in the Dark," by Donald R. Griffin (1958)--a study of echo-location in bats and other animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEROES OF SCIENCE | 1/17/1963 | See Source »

...Being Taken In. To Keniston. who feels that "true politics" should indeed concern collegians, a key deterrent is campus politics. By dealing only with trivia, he says, student government subtly argues that only "omnicompetent officials" have the wisdom to make real policy decisions. Even more subtle is an echo from the McCarthy era-not fear of speaking out. but fear of being taken in. Given the abiding American fear of being a sucker, says Keniston. McCarthy's allusions to "unwitting dupes" still make collegians wary of offbeat ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undergraduates: The Politically Disengaged | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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