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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know with whom this obscene parody of social concern originated. I am ashamed to think that my own class is producing people who think nothing of employing deceit and insincerity in the name of sound, responsible business practice. I am more encouraged, however, by the incompetence of their efforts. Such is the transparency of this grotesque ploy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biko Fund | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...Buddy Holly Story Well all right so I'm being foolish, well all right let people know...It takes fair amount of foolish adulation to really like this movie, but Buddy Holly fans know he had it all over Elvis. If the movie flits from anecodote to funny line to endearing scene with only the most superficial transitions the music (not vintage BH but good reproductions) holds it together. Buddy Holly was the James Dean of rock'n'roll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birds DeWitt, Bees DeWitt | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...violence. As for the Family Hour--supposedly the centerpiece of discussion here--nobody ever understands what it's supposed to do. "I guess we'll know it when we see it," one network censor told a writer. By the time the court hands down a ruling in the Writers Guild suit, everybody's trying to dump off the idea on everybody else. You almost wish that Cowan's side had lost the case. Maybe his weak-kneed call for "more modest regulatory reforms" would have more punch to it. Cowan tells us that "while it would be technically simple...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Gossip In Gory Detail | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

Still, you never know just how good he could get in the years to come. Jimmy Connors doesn't have to worry--no matter what. Pompan won't get that good, and besides, he wants to be a doctor and not a tennis player...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Don Pompan: The Harvard Tennis Team's Lively Ace | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

Some, like President Bok, maintain that we should remain in the arena and exert what influence we can to bring about change for the better. Bok even suggests that disassociation constitutes an abdication of our moral responsibility to stay in there and fight But we all know that we are too pure and holy to contaminate ourselves by such contact with the seamier manifestations of human nature. We are above all that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...Up and Away | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

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