Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poetic portrayal of the times, with Sauron and his destructive threat seen as an analogy to atomic war. For others, the Frodo saga represents a way to escape the mundane realities of life. "I'd like to live in the hobbit world because this world is so foul," says Marilyn Nulman, who works at the Harvard bookstore. Another enthusiast likes the Rings' old-fashioned moral simplicity: "You cheer the hero and boo the villain." Whatever the reasons, Frodo seems here to stay. As one mother put it when she bought the trilogy for her freshman daughter, "Going...
...seacoast. From the Adirondack lakes, he followed streams in his fishing scenes down to where lonely dorymen bobbed on the icy Atlantic banks and sailors were blown through tropical cays. Ever present in Homer is the imminence of brewing nor'easters and hurricanes. But in fair weather or foul, Homer insisted on the image of man prevailing against nature...
...much rum," explains Widow Marichal), and his mother took a dim view of the lad's fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups' games for fear he would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister's husband, Prospero Villalona, were baseball nuts too. By the time he was nine, Juan could throw a curve (his lopsided, homemade baseballs wouldn't do anything else), and he quit school after the eleventh grade "because...
...Fair & Foul. To a nation that has become a community of economic weather-vane watchers, the Ford signals-now fair and, in virtually the next instant, foul-added to the uncertainty that, perhaps more than anything else, has been the dominating factor in the stock-market plunge that began last February. Contributing to that same uncertainty were various indexes released by the Government last week...
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire-why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors...