Word: pent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer housing stays in its slump, the more explosive its comeback should be. The rapidly widening gap between production and demand is already helping to drive up rents in some cities, and there is worry in Washington that actual housing shortages may appear by mid-1967. When the pent-up market finally makes itself felt, the resulting housing rebound could well pump new steam into the whole U.S. economy...
...muse is by no means wholly Washington-pent or satire-bent. In "Grandmother's Mind," for example, she acutely renders childhood memories...
Bowes, who feels that baton waving is one of the best ways to release pent-up urges, began his six-hour recording session by conducting the orchestra in a spirited rendition of God Save the Queen. Then he turned the podium over to BBC Conductor Geoffrey Brand, who whipped the musicians into shape, stepping aside to allow Bowes the therapeutic benefit of conducting a few of the final takes. Total cost...
...Bowes, who hopes to release the recording through Britain's Decca record company if the quality is good enough, celebrated by buying a Rolls-Royce for $15,800 to "run around England in." Jack Greene-stone, the orchestra manager who arranged the session, was left nursing a new pent-up urge. Mused he: "I'll wager there are a lot of wealthy Americans who would like to conduct a symphony. It could become the new In Christmas present to give your friends -your own Beethoven's Fifth...
...aura of mystery causing fantasies of primitive rites and intimate confessions. There appears something un-kosher about a course without a real teacher to direct the activities of the class, without a conventional structure in which everyone feels secure. It is this lack of authority which allegedly allows the pent-up hostilities of a frustrated University life to escape--devouring the vulnerable innocents...