Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirty years hence, but it precludes any appreciable literary achievements. Such a technique fits descriptions of American cities and landscapes much better, and it is here that Kerouac occasionally is not bad reading. But Thomas Wolfe did all that much better, for he at least knew when to let a scene carry him along by its own weight and happily didn't feel obliged to punctuate the description with "Ah's" and "Oh's" or "Wild man; Wild...
...anybody to get it. Forbes has created the issue by claiming that Meyner, if reelected, will institute a state sales or income tax, and he has pledged himself to fight these new taxes. Under pressure, Meyner has also qualifiedly declared himself against the two taxes. And both have let it be understood that they will not increase taxes on real property owners...
...present production, and this is a stronger achievement, does not let the play down. Yet among excellent aspects there are several unconquered difficulties, so that as a whole, the evening is good rather than perfect...
...Let Them Eat Cake. In London, after Eileen Childs was awarded $13,160 when she testified that her injuries in a road accident made her forget how to cook, that she had been forced to serve canned beans and peas for nearly a year, unable to cook her husband's steak and kidney pudding, her husband got an additional $2,100 compensation...
After the University band played through the dulcet strains of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," Dartmouth almost pulled off the greatest deception since the invention of the forward pass. A speedy group raced from the stands and snared the world's biggest drum, which band managers had returned the night before from Chicago, where it had undergone extensive repairs, and started to run with it towards the goal line...