Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capture Lowell's world, TIME'S Boston bureau chief, Chris Cory, interviewed him, spoke to his friends and visited the Maine village where Lowell spends his summers. "He is a nice fellow," said one elderly man there, "but I don't understand anything about his poetry except that he is unhappy...
...midst of a $130 million expansion program, Oklahoma expects to grow from 15,500 to 25,000 students by 1975. Thanks to Cross's concern for good student-administration relations, O.U. has been relatively free of campus disorder, except before the annual football game with archrival Texas...
Horned Mammon. Some critics compare her to Grandma Moses, but, says Dealer Kalman, except for her age, there is no similarity between them. Rather than recalling childhood scenes, he explains, "this old lady has a very strong vision full of hallucinations and strange mystical places she has never, never been." Some of them are places she has heard about only over the radio; others betray a naive view of the outside world. One of her latest pictures, for instance, shows a horned Mammon being worshiped on Wall Street...
...circulation or hoarded away. That action would free 430 million oz. of Treasury silver now frozen by law as backing for the currency. Even so, the Wall Street brokerage firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis recently predicted that the Treasury will run out of silver by mid-1968 (except for a strategic reserve...
Celestial Robes. Lowell came early to his vocation. He was a fifth-form schoolboy at St. Marks, the prestigious Episcopal prep school in Southborough, Mass., when he received his calling. Awkward, myopic, shy, dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could...