Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late William S. Baring-Gould, a descendant of the author of Onward Christian Soldiers and an authority on nursery rhymes, took advantage of the new permissiveness to print a collection of the best five-line shockers in the lan guage. It is one of the brightest such collections since Norman Douglas' clandestine compilation of a generation ago. Most of Baring-Gould's specimens are still unprintable by magazine conventions, since...
...California Writer Harry Squires wrote to possible presidential candidates asking what they thought of the curious fact that from 1840 onward, no U.S. President elected in a year ending in zero had lived out his time in the White House. "Dear Mr. Squires," came one reply. "I feel that the future will have to answer this for itself-both as to my aspirations and my fate should I have the privilege of occupying the White House. I daresay, should anyone take this phenomenon to heart, anyone, that is, who aspires to change his address to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that most...
...Lowell: not only does he give us new proof of his skill and originality in the form which he described in previous volume as imitation (not translation), this time from poems in Latin, Italian, and Spanish. He also demonstrates that the imaginative parturition of his mind is going steadily onward in the age of the pill. His new poems, and especially the five longer ones grouped under the title "Near the Ocean," show him as delightfully un-played out. Here is the first stanza of the collection (from "Waking Early Sunday Morning...
Because of the potential returns, all cattle breeders watch closely for just such "accidents." A completely unexpected one, for example, has turned up at Bueyeros, N. Mex., involving a six-year-old Hereford bull named Doctor Onward 211. The bull, it seems, has 14 ribs instead of the usual 13. More than that, it has passed on the mutation to many of its offspring. Of the 200 calves sired so far by Doctor Onward, 65 have been born with an extra rib-and thus an extra cut of valuable beef...
...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms (Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...