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...want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth, and licentious usurious economics...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: If We Must Die | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

...unexamined hump at first of no interest lifting out of the beach at last devoured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry Today: Low Profile, Flatted Voice | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo known as Heck Noe (humor is hardly Dent's forte). Others have long pointy ears, or keep secret laboratories in hollow mountains, or come from an advanced civilization in the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Gore of Yore | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...despotic reign of his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, Muscat and Oman* as the country was known before Qabus shortened the name-was not far removed from the 15th century. Fearful that social and economic development would corrupt traditional Islamic values, Said turned his land, perched on the southeastern hump of Arabia near the gates of the Persian Gulf, into a 112,000-sq.-mi. jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: Starting from Scratch | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...meet its budget. The orchestra's creditors are being generous, not pressing it to pay its bills. Nevertheless, this may be a crucial season for the orchestra. If its subscribers and ticket sales continue to increase, as they have for the past few years, it may be over the hump. If they do not, if Philharmonia audiences decrease as Symphony audiences have, the Philharmonia may be just a pleasant memory of music, dying with a dying fall...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: The Boston Philharmonia Is Alive and Well | 11/17/1970 | See Source »

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