Word: nays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wittiest, if not the surest, books are the Gault/Millau guides (Crown; $11.95 each) to Paris, London, New York and France. The work of two dedicated French cuisinartistes, to whom a badly cooked meal is a personal, nay national, affront, Henri Gault and Christian Millau's assessments of hotels and restaurants are unfortunately often more informed with high passion than sound taste. More reliable is the august Guide Michelin, long the three-starred supreme arbiter of hotels, restaurants and touring, not so much written as compiled as if by God himself...
Satire's delivery agent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, a nay boob. The souffles later collapsed in acrimony...
...these plans ignore that in every section, nay on every shelf, useful books and less useful ones are mixed. Relegating an entire section off-campus is just as foolhardy as keeping every section. What Widener ought to be doing is weeding its collection and sending the most severely underutilized books to New England Deposit Library, where they can be retrieved within 48 hours...
...just a physical being. He is also a spiritual being, nay, more, a mystical, supra-spiritual being. And here I was, waiting for all three.. to throw up." The voice, belonging to Erofeev, the author-narrator of Moscow Circles, reeks of cheap vodka and ironic self-revelation. Erofeev, you see, is not merely drunk--he's metaphysically smashed, floating somewhere on the far side of oblivion, in the alcoholic backwater of heightened consciousness. His sodden satirical monologue is a latter-day Notes from Underground (and under the influence)--a profoundly funny novel that ranks as a satirical masterpiece...
Planning for the center began five years ago when City Councillor Sandra Graham founded the organization in the hopes of providing "a place where members of the Cambridge community of nay race, creed or sex can get the kind of artistic opportunities they might want." Graham recalled yesterday. Graham said that the springtime ground-breaking ceremonies would "have a great psychological impact on all of us who have worked on it for so long...