Word: palely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pale spring sunshine glowed on the House of Commons' oak paneling last week as Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins rose to start the annual spring rite of Budget Day. It was a twitchy moment for the British, who look to the budget for both a review of past economic performance and word of the government's future policies. In too many years since World War II, the budget has brought higher taxes, tighter credit and myriad other measures designed to solve Britain's chronic balance of payments problem. This time Jenkins offered much hope-and some...
...glassy river. A yellow glow from the side lights the figures of a man who has stopped paddling for a moment and of his passengers, an Indian boy and a fox. All three sit motionless, staring at the viewer as though he were sitting on the bank. The uniform pale yellow-grey sky seems to stretch in all directions beyond the frame that cuts...
...beds long enough for them to gather at some official occasion. Just such an occasion was provided last week at a Kremlin party for Soviet cosmonauts. Only one of the ailing leaders felt well enough, in body or spirit, to put in an appearance. He was Shelepin, who looked pale...
...classics, particularly Yesterday, Michele and Hey, Jude. His lyrics are best when least pretentious, as in Junk, a kind of sentimental word jamboree: "Bye, bye, says the sign in the shop window/ Why, Why, says the junk in the yard." Maybe I'm Amazed, however, is a pale echo of the choral sumptuousness of McCartney's The End, which served as the coda to Abbey Road, the hit 1969 Beatle album...
...even know our own literature. We have been brought up on what D. H. Lawrence called the pale-faces of American literature, the bank tellers and insurance salesmen who wrote about existence in the evenings. We don't know about the red-skins, the Whitmans and Williamses and Ginsbergs and Olsons who didn't want to be English or metaphysical, but wrote about themselves in their own idiom. These poets are more ours than any others because they have written our language...