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Word: needn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question bounced back to the Committee on Educational-Policy midway through this term and it decided that there were indeed no rules on the question and that there needn't be. Acting on an HPC request, Ford reminded the Faculty of the non-rule last Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bluebooks Yours For the Asking | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

...novel must make its way without reference to its gossip quotient, and Updike knows this better than anyone. "Jacques Maritain somewhere says that to write about evil a man needn't have done evil-only felt the evil within himself," Updike remarks. "If people want to make a different conclusion, fine. If the book has passion in it, it's my own. I would hope that at least I have the will to put things down the way they are, under the assumption that there's something beautiful about them in any case. I think a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...needn't worry about the plot. The intrigue of Desire lies in what happens to what is happening. To get at the potential of Anastasia Vote, the ineffable potential of magic and mystery, Hunter destroys the narrative form, that apple-pie order march of elements we all know and love--elements like time, cause and effect, motivation (spell it out, son), resolution. Yes, they all break down. (Like the junkyard, like Anastasia--you've got it now, BREAKDOWN is the theme.) The threads of plot tempt you to join a surrealistic scavenger hunt. Don't. Don't fumble about...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Desire Is the Fire | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...Number One," "The Jewels of the Crown," and "I'm Gonna Get My Man," are finely crafted showtunes. "The Early Bird Gets the Worm" got the kickline so carried away that one of the would-be sex kittens lost his head piece (he recovered the hair deftly, though he needn't have bothered; his own was long enough...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: All the Queen's Men | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

...needn't have ribaldry's taint Or strive to make everyone faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There Was A Young Man of ... | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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