Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention to Prometheus-even though his intent is not to translate myths into modern terms, but to illuminate a modern hero's death with myths. Updike slights Prometheus, and his book surfers. The reader learns little more than that Peter is bright, has psoriasis (the vulture's peck, presumably), and that as an adult he is a second-rate abstract painter with a Negro mistress...
Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). On the Beach, with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins...
...shutdown that had already lasted scandalously long. The most impressive agency actively seeking a solution to the strike was an ad hoc board with no power whatsoever. This was the Board of Public Accountability, a panel of three judges-Harold R. Medina, Joseph O'Grady, David W. Peck-appointed by U.S. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz last week to hear witnesses from both sides. I.T.U...
...citizens living abroad will no longer be totally exempt from taxation on money earned overseas. Actually a maximum of $35,000 can still be clear, but that's all. Holden will probably stick by his loyalty to Switzerland anyway. Where else could he have George Sanders, Gregory Peck, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner. Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Stewart Granger, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Ustinov, Noel Coward, David Niven, Jack Palance and James Mason for approximate neighbors...
...afternoon, then printed early next morning. There are countless books filled with topical trivia, like Countdown for Cindy, the story of a blushing girl astronaut. There are stacks of books so eerily old-fashioned that their manuscripts must have been found in somebody's attic, like Susan Peck, Late of Boston. And there are mountains of dull and dutiful books dedicated to teaching children everything from fishing to fission. Mostly, there are far too many books whose size and gaudy color will no doubt divert the uncertain shopper's eye from the enduring children's classics...