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...Kentucky. Cardholders will receive by mail 71-in. by 31-in. cards -actually bank drafts already made out to the IRS-to complete and attach to their 1040 forms. The IRS will deposit the drafts in banks participating in the plan. Cardholders can then pay BankAmericard in one lump sum or in monthly installments at a 15% annual interest rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit Cards: Charge-a-Tax | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...author of the second half of the bill. Next . His brief opus is the story of a 48-year-old man who is mistakenly called in for an induction physical. The physical, conducted by an inhuman army nurse, reduces the man, an already sad individual, to a totally demoralized lump of soggy flesh...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer Adaptation-Next at the Theatre Co. of Boston | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

...plot in poetry, T. S. Eliot has compared it to a lump of meat thrown a house dog by a burglar (the writer) to keep him busy while the real business is attended to?rifling the silver cupboard or dealing in the wizardry of words. Nabokov feels the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero's Progress | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...their numbness to the hostile and repressive reaction of the mass of United States society. But why did Gardner decide to abuse the worst of the radicals for the better part of his final speech and cast only an occasional critical sentence at what he called "that complacent lump of self-satisfied Americans who fatten on the yield of this society but never bestir themselves to solve its problems...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Gardner's Lectures | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

...seventh is D. Another Blues note is the fifth scale degree (B in the Key of E). These notes give the music the distinctive Blues sound. Out of this basic framework black musicans have created over the years the remarkable body of material that one chooses to lump under the term "Blues...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

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