Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exact extent of the loss will not be determined until workers are able to salvage any remaining material. Some of the building's former occupants said that their books and papers were kept in steel desks, and might still be saved...
...laureates, and is far fiercer. In their own way, his fragile panels and boxes, smeared with black wax and ornamented with tarnished jewelry, Victorian wallpaper, girlie postcards and other detritus, shock and edify much as does a scabrous Matthias Grunewald crucifixion, or the death's-head kept as a memento mori by medieval princes...
...sweet and golden middle road that pleased audiences everywhere-on million-seller records (Whispering), radio, TV, nightclubs and the concert stage. He took chances on new music (Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and new musicians (Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden), but his staple was rich, smooth orchestration that kept his foot-long baton in motion until 1961, when he retired to his Bucks County home, Coda, so named for the last few bars on a musical score...
...compliment to the mischievous skill of Iris Murdoch that her ten previous novels-notably Under the Net, The Unicorn and The Red and the Green-have kept critics guessing about the direction in which her talent might develop. The Nice and the Good may give them a sad clue, for the answer seems to be middle-age spread...
...subject is still love, the variety of its comic faces and the delusions and dark necessities upon which it feeds. But now the problems are well within the grasp of a marriage counselor. Gone are the Murdochian sexual extravaganzas that only a dash of sly metaphysics kept from degenerating into peep shows. Sex in The Nice and the Good is nearly just that...