Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experienced reader of Frye will find little in Spiritus Mundi that is new or startling. Frye himself admits in "Expanding Eyes" that he hasn't "budged an inch in 18 years" since the publication of his major critical work, Anatomy of Criticism. All his scholarship since then has fit his own description of Wallace Stevens's poetry: variations on a theme. Nevertheless, Spiritus Mundi constitutes at the very least an appropriate introduction to Frye's critical preoccupations; it also contains a number of interesting re-explorations of topics he has treated previously. Among the best essays are "The Times...
...course, Jackie Gleason graced his own tournament. A stalwart devotee of the game, Gleason invested $8000 for a Bicentennial golf cart sporting red-white-and-blue trim, CB radio, five-inch color TV, tape deck, electrically-powered roof...
Give 'Em An Inch...
Italian life. The Vatican had fought abortion every inch of the way. On New Year's Day, Pope Paul used his annual message to make an anti-abortion statement with the plea, "If you want peace, defend life...
...image. His is more that of an intellectual rock-'n'-roll star badly in need of a square meal. He weighs but 125 lbs. and consequently looks a foot taller than his 5 ft. 9 in. He wears his brown hair long and his sideburns an inch below the ears. His agile fingers could well be the longest and skinniest since the days of Nicolo Paganini...