Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record's second act gets the Beatles into deeper, more cross-currented waters. The first number, "Within You Without You" puts forward the Beatle manifesto to the tidal, wave-breaking sounds of an Indian raga. George Harrison chants his message, which is the Quintessence of Hippieism: "About the space between us all... and the love we all could share when we find it." At the end of the song comes a small gale of very self-satisfied laughter, which may be the "straight" people laughing at the idealistic, hippie message, or may just be a transition into the next...
...last generation's pop. The Beatles parody ragtime with a total affection that betrays their longing for good old Sgt. Pepper's simpler, tea-dance age. (Through no coincidence, they have written three lovely fox trots in as many albums). The singer ("yours sincerely, wasting away") is looking forward to every possible kind of social security, not just the financial variety...
Luff, the forward edge of the sail...
...ever, did the bank lose money on his risky loans. Thus, when Semenenko, 63, retired last month as vice chairman and head of First National's "special industries" division, the Brahmins he had worked for made appropriate farewells. The bank and its directors, said Chairman Roger Damon, "look forward to a continuing relationship...
...earlier book, Language on Vacation (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this, he commands reading the same backward as forward - it is the short title of a dramat ic monologue, written in the late 1800s by a Portuguese eccentric named Baptista Machado...