Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. A painful and naunting Dreiserian story of a poor little girl who acquires everything except happiness...
...rest of Britain in its industrial growth rate for three years. In Fife, for example, U.S. and British electronics manufacturers have built more than 100 new factories in a California-type complex along the Firth of Forth. Today Scotland turns out more electronic computers than any other country except the U.S.; Scots generate more electric power per capita with nuclear reactors than any other country...
Nothing Exaggerated. De La Renta is strictly a wholesale designer (exceptions: his wedding dresses for Anne Ford Uzielli and Minnie Gushing Beard). Among his customers are Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor and all the Kennedys except Jackie, whose loyalty is still to Rome's Valentino. Says De La Renta of his dress of the year: "It's very feminine. There is nothing exaggerated about it, and many different types of women can wear...
...Trusted Him." Fisher subsequently got himself and his wife named, along with Alice and Edwin, as parties to at least two joint checking accounts. Eventually, says the bank, he had nearly complete control of the Atwoods' finances; he apparently gave them nothing except allowances of $1,000, or $2,000 a month from 1947 to 1965. Meanwhile, the bank went on, he was transferring more than $3,000,000 out of one account, negotiating loans using the Atwoods' assets as collateral and investing their money in stocks...
...prominence as one of the most provocative of American poets. But the large crowd that came to hear his Morris Gray Poetry Reading on October 25 may have been surprised to find itself faced with a solid, comfortable Southern businessman. This is what Dickey appears to be, except when his eyes glitter as he relishes the turns of his own conversation...