Word: free
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seattle's Janie Smith, another freshman, took two individual firsts, qualifying for the Easterns in the 100-meter free (55.57) and speeding to a 1:15.2 first in the 800-meter breaststroke...
...alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never use a bayonet, he says; while you are pulling it out of a man's stomach, his comrade will get you. A shovel, on the other hand, can take your enemy's head off in one quick motion, leaving you free to defend yourself. The veteran and Paul Baumer, the youthful narrator (Richard Thomas), grow together, like father and son; but in the end none of Katczinsky's advice can save either himself or the doomed class...
...habits even left him free to perform a good deed; he married Thomas Mann's daughter Erika in order to get her out of Nazi Germany and safely under the protection of British citizenship. Auden later enlisted E.M. Forster in a campaign to persuade other homosexuals to perform such rescues...
...requirements of Editor George Horace Lorimer, grafting on happy endings when needed and making sure that there was plenty of boy-girl interest. He stayed clear of the literary world and regarded himself simply as an entertainer. When he encountered critical snobbery, as he began to break free of the golden chains of the magazines, he took to posing, says Biographer Bell, as an unenlightened middle brow. After meeting John Dos Passes in the 1950s, he reported that he was "a nice guy but hard for me to talk to, due to my mental limitations...
...Mersey sound. As the talented director Franc Roddam follows Jimmy and his cronies around, we watch a society being born. When The Who's pivotal song. My Generation, flips on at a boozy make-out party, the kids forsake their '50s dance steps for the tribal free-for-all that would typify the '60s. When the mods brawl noisily with their rivals, the blue-collar rockers, a malevolent conflict becomes a liberating, if vandalistic rock riot. Roddam understands that the passions of the time were essentially benign...