Word: elliott
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There has been no revenge exacted for generations, but the collective arsenals seem undiminished. Dutch owns ten guns; his brother Elliott, who Dutch says was once "meaner than a striped snake," has 18. Belle has a .38, and another Hatfield, nearly 80, keeps a revolver in his office. When the mood strikes him, he swivels and fires into a stack of books in the corner. The people of the valley know from experience that some folks have a native wildness that is not to be trifled with. Even smiling, gracious Belle has a measure of congenital menace. Says her cousin...
...major action now is the distillation of the novelties of 30 years ago." Ever the critic, he pithily appraises such composers as Elliott Carter ("not negligible"), John Cage ("a certain comic value") and Roger Sessions ("for the school and college trade"). Erik Satie, the sardonic French aesthete who raised understatement to a cardinal principle of composition, is still his ideal and greatest influence...
...years since Pierre Elliott Trudeau was first elected Prime Minister, he has had one ambition above all others: to give his vast, fragmented land a constitution that would ensure its survival as a unified state. Last week after he made several important compromises, all but one of the eight provincial premiers who have stonewalled Trudeau's plans for 14 months dropped their opposition. After 114 years, declared the ebullient Prime Minister, "Canada will become, in a technical and legal sense, an independent country." Still, Trudeau faced one important challenge to his dream. The lone holdout against his plan among...
Eliot's record is uninspiring only because of tough opposition, E-House coach Mike Elliott said. "We're a very strong team, but we're also a victim of House football circumstances," he added...
Describing St. Pierre's performance, Elliott and Yanker said, "He's god-like...