Word: mined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Well is it mine? How can I know I owe you something if I don't get the bill..." Then I noticed something else. "Hey, why should this one have an original tax of $3.30 on it when the tax on the other cycle is only...
...black welfare mothers. This goes on in the Municipal Court, Room 404, for it is Adlow's court. It is run by him this way; he is sure this is the way it must be run. His eyes are old and they know very much; they know more than mine, have mine thoroughly whipped (I tried to stare at him for a time but could not). My eyes are frightened, flit around the room, unable to gather it all in and not wanting to, wanting to get out of this jail cell...
...recent favorite of mine: "Keep the baby, Faith...
Like a land mine under a cathedral, the original manuscript of The Waste Land has been hidden at the New York Public Library. Only a few people have known that it is there. Eliot himself believed it to be lost, and is thought to have hoped for oblivion for it. It was exploded last week with the publication of a biography of an avant-garde patron, New York Lawyer John Quinn. He owned the Eliot document, and his estate turned the material over to the library. It will take many sabbatical years of the Eliotian scholastic industry to measure...
...have been fascinating. But, as curious readers of Anti-Memoirs soon find, the author, now 67, has loftily decided to leave nearly all of his personal chronology out of his autobiography. ("Almost all the writers I know love their childhood," he writes, thus disposing of all that. "I hate mine.") What he offers instead is an odd, episodic mixture of action and reflection, frequently obfuscated by Malraux's fondness for flights of impenetrable Gallic rhetoric. The book includes part of an early novel, some narrative accounts of his adventures in the French Resistance and elsewhere, and long replays...