Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue. We're two parts of the same company. There's a question of responsibility here. You're not some little hippie paper defying the Establishment. We're both part of a half-a-billion-dollar corporation that makes contracts and is expected to honor them. We signed up with the New York Times, and so did dozens of newspapers. We've all gone to a lot of expense to honor the release date together. Remember, the Times even agreed that Kay Graham could read an advance of the book. We're all part...
...SEEMS FUNNY that Hemingway, who is certainly not the best American writer of this century, should have such an effect on so many young authors. Hemingway drones below the line on every page, and his themes, coarsely described as the West Point motto--Duty, Honor, Country--are also O'Brien's. But modified--if Hemingway is in some form or another the spiritual godfather of this book other influences also shine through. As Michael Herr said in his excellent book of reporting on the war, Dispatches, the crazy war in Vietnam and the equally crazy cultural revolution here both...
...honor of its quincentennial, Oxford has mounted a traveling exhibit of some 250 artifacts and illustrious works from the five centuries. Aptly, since the semi-independent New York branch is Oxford's largest offspring, the exhibit is opening this week at New York's Pierpont Morgan Library, across from Oxford's American headquarters. There, from March 8 through May 7, visitors can gaze at Rood's Expositio, the first Oxford Bible (dated 1675) and A Map of Virginia, With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion, written by Captain John Smith...
...bent and his toes and hands pointed in, typical of comatose people with serious brain problems." Bob had had a natural-death will drawn up in California the year before, requesting that his life not be preserved by artificial means if he were severely incapacitated. His parents refused to honor the will. Near the end he looked ghastly, the skin on his face drawn into a horrible sneer, his lips pulled away from his teeth, and his arms colored green from the intravenous tubes. He had been a very handsome man, with blonde hair cut at the neck, a jutting...
...further losses erased Beling's chances of qualifying for the NCAA finals, but could not diminish the honor of placing in the competitive tournament...