Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Horse. A drama set in a waterfront gin mill, presented by the Parish Players of Vermont at the People's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, through January 25. Performances Thursday through Sunday...
...that "the core of liberalism is a certain optimism, and the core of a proper conservatism is a certain Augustinian pessimism. Nothing seems to me more demonstrably untrue--demonstrable from the received experience of the race that we call history--than the optimism that pervades such enjoyable texts as Mill's On Liberty and Milton's Areopagitica--that is, if you just let truth and falsehood fight, falsehood will be beaten." He laughs, a rare indulgence. "That's refuted on every page. Falsehood has lots of advantages. There are a lot more forms of it than there are forms...
...Depression) after the 1963 suicide of her husband Philip. Since then, she has become one of the most powerful women in America-and one of the best, toughest publishers in the field. Her Washington Post Co., which includes Newsweek, six broadcast stations and 49% of a Canadian paper mill, rang up revenues of $287 million last year...
...major industries were more savagely battered by the recent recession than textiles, which suffered a loss of sales so severe that production and employment plunged to levels unseen since the dark days of the 1930s. Today the industry is making a stunningly strong comeback. Mills that were operating only two or three days a week last winter are now spinning and weaving round the clock, five or even six days a week. Sales and output are surging well ahead of the general pace of recovery despite the less than robust condition of two prime textile markets, housing and autos. Unemployment...
There were two early tipoffs that this wasn't going to be your run-of-the-mill sports hype. There are no pictures in the book ("What, no pictures?!" my roommate exclaimed as he leafed through the 413-page volume). And Ali begins the book by talking about his loss to Ken Norton, instead of starting out with a victory...