Word: hearse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The U.N. General Assembly hears many violent denunciations and endless bland defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan...
Stomach Rumblings. Standard & Poor's got its start in 1860 when Henry Varnum Poor brought out the granddaddy of investment publications, The History of the Railroads and Canals of the U.S., got its present name after a 1941 merger with the 35-year-old Standard Statistics Bureau, another investment...
Forked Tongue. There will remain a hard core of hi-fi fans who will continue to ignore stereo. For one thing, stereo in all its forms is still more expensive than comparable monaural sound. For another, critics complain that stereo speaks with forked tongue. Despite claims that it delivers concert...
The Imprisoned Self. What happens when the mood fails is sadly apparent in Clock Without Hands, a novel without direction or much visible point except as a tame foray into race relations. Novelist McCullers drops story threads and conies close to losing the entire narrative spool. A major character is...
To be mad, says Istina Mavet, is to know that things are far, far from what they seem. Workmen apparently digging a ditch are actually digging her grave. Peering into the depths of a mirror, she sees not her image but nothingness. Answering a phone, she hears only the voice...