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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such encounters haunt the mind after the words are over. Ullman's fluid imagination marks her as the one she addresses in a poem: "You no longer know a difference/ between question and travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Poets and Their Songs | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...original Latin vacatio-an emptying, a suspension of normal activity, an absence of something-performs a small mystic flip when it encounters Pascal's thought: "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room." But vacations, in a secular sense, have an ancient history. Inns, restaurants, baths and theaters turned up in the archaeological digs at Herculaneum and Pompeii. For just as long, vacationers have been subdivided into spiritual castes: the enthusiasts who live all the rest of the year waiting for their temporary release, like school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Are Vacations Really Necessary? | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...will take them a couple of months to get another eviction certificate," David Sullivan, a tenant organizer, said last week. "That will put Harvard in the position of having to evict people in the middle of the winter. I don't know if they will want to do that," Sullivan said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board Nullifies Evictions of Sumner Road Tenants | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...wardheelers and bored millionaires whom Americans elect to send them to wars. Wayne knew nothing about Vietnam, about killing babies and shooting smack and blowing your lieutenant's head off after he told you to take Hill #34. He shot the movie in Georgia, where people think they know about war but it takes 40 of them for a lynching...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Ding Dong | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...advertisements for The In-Laws herald it as "The First Certified Crazy Person's Movie." That's a silly label indeed for this comedy-thriller-you don't know whether it's meant to refer to the star or the director...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: In-lawed Outlaws | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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