Word: owing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he will have considerably broader authority than the city's cumbersome three-man executive board, Washington, who will govern with a yet to be appointed nine-man city council, will have less authority than most other big-city mayors. Not only will he owe his $28,500 job ($6,500 less than he made in New York) to the White House rather than the city's voters, but he must also pass his budget through Congress, most particularly the frequently unsympathetic House District Committee...
About 15,000 people were gathered on the grounds of the Washington Monument, and they all laughed when Joan Baez, 26, hefted her guitar and said, "I would like very much to thank the Daughters of the American Revolution for all the publicity." Joanie really did owe the poor dears of the D.A.R. a vote of thanks-for stumbling over her boobytrap. It seems that Joan had determined as long ago as May that the D.A.R. would refuse permission for her to use its 3,800-seat Convention Hall for a folk-singing peace-in, had quietly arranged with...
...cheerfully scratchy, crazy-quilt compositions of bicycle handlebars, Coke bottles and girls in garter belts owe a good deal to Klee and Dubuffet...
Constance Garnett was a fine lady with a tin ear who translated the great 19th century Russian writers into a Victorian taffeta Modern Library prose. We owe her much thanks for her hardihood, but it is refreshing to find out every so often that Dostoevsky really didn't write that funny way. The Loeb Repertory Company has staged a collection of scenes from Crime and Punishment that pierces through the Garnettian fog to something close to the original electricity of Dostoevsky...
...contradictions in the weeks following President Kennedy's assassination proceeded to devote the next three years to intensive study of it. Marcus never really explains why the subject so fascinated him, and still does now. But if he's right, even in part, then maybe the rest of us owe him the explanations...