Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second to none in German literature, a major novelist and dramatist, and probably the most richly expressive lyric poet who ever lived-a genius who differed in kind but not in degree from Dante and Shakespeare. He wrote a hundred times more than either of them-his collected works fill 150 volumes-and consequently more of what he wrote is dated; The Sorrows of Young Werther, for instance, reads in this unsentimental century like soap opera written in gold ink. But his finest works-Iphigenia, Tasso, Elective Affinities-embrace a massive range of experience, and in them all the print...
...novel is so big that if its air conditioning is turned off, clouds form inside. Its electrical system contains 11,425 miles of copper wire. None of it connected. The cement that went into its construction could build Grand Coulee Dam, with enough left over to fill a wash tub into which might be placed the feet of the Scribner's editor who okayed it for publication...
...pioneering program in prepaid medical care (administered through the Blue Cross-Blue Shield system). Last year over 20 members of the staff collaborated in the production of a sort of encylopdeia of college health affairs, College Health Administration, which does everything from reproducing the forms Harvard requires freshmen to fill out to explaining the legal aspects of university medicine...
...browser on Wells can find everything from sandals to a potty screen for discreet cats ($8). Top jazzmen pull their gigs at The Plugged Nickel and, a few doors down, the hippest folksters fill up cavernous Mother Blues. At the end of the street is the famed Second City, the satiric improvisational theater. And in the next three months, some 32 new places are firmly scheduled to add themselves to the present 110 establishments...
...passing of slavery." Actually, she was not a Bostonian but the daughter of a New Yorker who had made millions in importing and iron mining. At 17, she announced her ambition: "If I ever have any money of my own, I am going to build a palace and fill it with beautiful things." At 20, she married John L. Gardner, son of an old-line Bostonian who had become rich in the East India trade, and was one of Boston's most eligible bachelors. For nearly 40 years, he loyally indulged her whims...