Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late 1960s, Huntington headed the Council on Vietnamese studies of the South East Asia Development Advisory Group, a body that helped to develop State Department policy...
...unfolding for weeks, painfully, inexorably, the most fascinating horror story of the major leagues this year. The Red Sox had a 14-game lead over the Yankees just two months ago; and not since the Boston Braves of 1914 overtook the New York Giants had such a lead so late in the season been blown. The Red Sox had led the division from late May until last week; but as Yankee Star Reggie Jackson said, "It's where you are when the leaves turn brown, not when they are green." The browning of America has begun...
Pressing 65 years' worth of such contributions between the covers of a single anthology ought to produce something like essence of attar. It does not, as former Poetry Editor Daryl Hine admits in his introduction: "Much of what has appeared in Poetry, early and late, is mediocre, and seems more so today." Aside from "Prufrock," the magazine published only one other great poem: Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning," which survived even Harriet Monroe's rather highhanded editing and rearranging of its stanzas. But the value of The "Poetry" Anthology does not rest on its Parnassian heights. Flipping through...
...legends of King Arthur are a natural subject for novelists. T.H. White produced an eloquent contemporary version in The Once and Future King, and only two years ago, the late John Steinbeck's dull but competent retelling of Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's 15th century compilation, was published. Now Thomas Berger offers still another rex redux, in the form of "a legendary novel." He might have done better to call it a haphazard parody...
Crimson quarterback Larry Brown, flattened by a blindside hit just after his touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter of Saturday's loss...