Word: owings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phelan apologizes "to TIME for having stolen a vivid line from you-five months before you wrote it [Oct. 23]." But for technique and style you both owe at least a nod to the old English prayer book. The comment seems to have been inspired by the lines in the litany: "From Ghoulies, and Ghosties, and three-legged beasties, and things that go boomp in the night, Good Lord, deliver us." ALLAN W. WENDT Columbia...
Ballads before the invention of printing, and since then in the folk song tradition, owe their power to an accompanying tune, the British poet said. He explained that music carried the story, while rapidity of action created a cinematic effect by "brilliant pacing of graphic detail...
Patriotic Duty. Credit cards have grown steadily, opening ever wider possibilities of pay-later living for businessmen, travelers and impulse buyers, who now owe a fancy $656 million. The cards can now be used like cash at most airports, hotels, restaurants and shops, and credit-card companies are scrambling to arrange more uses. The 1,250,000 holders of Diners' Club cards can charge an African safari, and credit cards are now used to get haircuts, buy theater tickets and rent mink coats. The Carte Blanche card can be flashed as an instant credit reference...
...down the heavy Corneille. I would hear, behind me, a dazzled voice whisper: 'But it's because he likes Corneille!' I didn't like him." In secret, he would read trashy boys' adventure stories that his mother bought for him by the hundreds. "I owe to those my first encounters with Beauty. When I opened them, I forgot about everything. Was that reading? No, but it was death by ecstasy...
...this policy has been to increase academic competitiveness in high schools, and hence raise the standing of academic values. "It is during this formative period of calculated planning for college," Shinagel says, "with its emphasis on high and consistent academic performance, that any intellectual or academic professionalism may owe its origins...