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Word: letterings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ones with the letter 'H' branded on their breasts no longer quaked behind the Ivy vines, slaying the cocky Goliath. They had done it without the use of Iron, for He had penned the virus of knowledge through books. Now all was Rosy. The people cheered, their spines tingling as they bowed at the witnessing of this sabbath eve miracle. PLAYER G FG-FGA REB. PTS. AVG. B. BANKS 21 125-221 169 327 15.6 B. HOOFT 26 131-268 132 328 12.6 C. BOOKER 26 105-217 114 264 10.2 G. FINE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Name's The Game | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

...decides that, this year, one is going to read only women's fiction by women about women edited by women with a preface by a women, one should ask oneself why one is really doing this, and examine oneself for traces of racism and narcissism. Before one writes a letter or a paper viciously attacking an entire gender, or elects to make friends only from one sex, one should inspect ones motives pretty thoroughly...

Author: By Nicholas B. Gunther, | Title: ...and a Note From the Author | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

What pushed me over the edge, from merely being quietly resentful to actually writing a letter, is impossible to say. I may well be overreacting to what is only a tiny portion of the population, and I hope I am. I also sincerely hope that I have neither hurt nor offended anyone by expressing my discouragement and worry...

Author: By Nicholas B. Gunther, | Title: ...and a Note From the Author | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...unfair that the south of the world is never treated to a scene so grand and so breathtaking as last month's snowstorm. After the torm, I sat down at my desk and started to write a letter describing it to my younger brother in Madras...

Author: By Mangalam Srinivasan, | Title: Reflections on the Blizzard | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...issues, no probing of our souls' seamy undersides. At bottom, this show is clean. Unbesmirched by ambiguity, wiped of Weltshmerz, it comes to us like a babe, puerile and kicking. No meat for melodic meditation, no erudite arias, no recondite repartee a la intelligencia. In a word--a four-letter word--the book of Lady Be Good is gosh-darn dumb. But like the song says: the production has "got a rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm" that could make "you all aquiver." The Gershwin songs are great, stuff your grandmother might have warbled in her day, still sprightly enough...

Author: By Chris Healey, | Title: Good Enough Gershwin | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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