Word: nothingism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quoting as his authority "George (Specs) Torporcer, Baseball--From Back Yard to Big League, 1954, pages 55-57," Fuller repiled that there are "sound reasons (having nothing to do with deceiving the umpire)" for bringing a ball into the strike zone.
2:10 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Charles Munch, music director. Direct from Symphony Hall. Program: KHRENIKOV, Suite from incidental music to Much Ado About Nothing; AMIROV, Mugams; KABALEVSKY, Piano Concerto; MOUSSORGSKY-RAVEL. Pictures at an Exhibition.
In its title. The Day Nothing Happened telegraphs the gentle punch that Humorist Corey Ford (Has Anybody Seen Me Lately? Never Say Diet) has aimed at the current publishing mania for Day books. He parodies the pompous epiphenomena that accompany such ventures, including the introductory note of martyred scholarship, the...
Lady Edith is feeling rather pipped, or she would shoot the python herself. From the reports of the villagers, it is a great, ropy beast-and it will creep forth to kill again after it recovers from a two-week digestive coma brought on by swallowing Lady Edith's...
Back to Abnormal. Authority collapses in the persons of the warden and the chaplain; there is nothing left but the tainted and ambiguous influence of the psychologist, who must bargain for peace and the lives of the guards. Before the insurrection is over, one man has been tortured and two...