Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move spurred by the spontaneous and unexplained disintegration of student I.D. cards, Harvard libraries begin loaning books to bearers of old college I.D. cards, Social Security cards, draft cards, Master Charge cards, MBTA cards, and the Queen of Spades...
After the war, he enrolled at Mississippi's Millsaps College and was almost bounced when officials discovered he was an eighth-grade dropout. He later went on to earn a master's from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley...
...does a certified loony find gainful occupation? The answer is as obvious as the plot of an antique B movie: he rents a remote and gloomy castle and sets up shop as a master criminal, abducting the professor-proprietor of a doomsday machine and forcing him-he has this beautiful daughter, you see-to employ the weapon as an instrument with which to blackmail the world. It is a measure of his madness that all he wants in return for not using the machine is Clouseau's life...
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PARKER JR.: BIRD (Savoy, 2 LPs). Now's the Time, Ko Ko, Billie's Bounce-plus 27 more master takes make up the best of the fabled alto-saxophonist's Savoy recordings...
...write it. Then, last winter, Sullivan died at the age of 83. But this week's New Yorker does not leave the "season all unbarded and countless friends un-Christmas-carded." The humorist's former editor, noted Parodist Roger Angell, 56, has raised a toast in the master's distinctive style...