Word: licensee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stout relishes such topical references; they are an octogenarian's way of exhibiting an elastic, contemporary mind. Indeed, a few years after entering his eighth decade he wrote a Jesuit priest friend, signing himself Rex Stout, S.J.-for "still jaunty." So is Wolfe, who this time even goes to...
"FREEDOM IS TO man as water is to fish," declares one of the characters in Bertolt Brecht's The Tutor. In the play, freedom is metaphorically equal to sexual license, so when the lecherous tutor castrates himself, Brecht's message is clear; this misguided soul, in his anxiousness to retain...
Massachusetts presently has one of the strictest gun laws in the nation. A prospective gun owner must obtain either a license to carry firearms or a firearms I.D. card permit allowing him to keep a gun in his home or business, but not to carry it on the streets. The...
But through five decades, they have never neglected their primary obligation: to nourish the comic spirit, to make the risible visible in times of war and economic distress and social chaos. As this warm, hilarious collection demonstrates, despite the changing boundaries of artistic license and comic liberty, The New Yorker...
She paused for a second to add, "I suppose I have the feeling I've been practicing without a license."