Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joined by the Crown, the pound sterling (except for Canada), and the heritage of English as a second or even first language, the Commonwealth's commingling of custom, instinct and self-interest has somehow surmounted fierce disagreements over Suez and South Africa, Kashmir and the Congo, colonial policy and foreign relations, democracy and Communism-and, most significantly of all, Empire itself...
...Other credits: San Francisco Banker Derek Parmenter's retreat was done by Designer John Garden Campbell, and the glass-walled pavilion near Inverness, Calif., by Francis E. Leighton. Lily Saarinen's Cape Cod cabin is by Olav Hammarstrom, the Pound Ridge home of John Straus by Edward L. Barnes, and Burton Tremaine's house in Madison, Conn., was converted by Philip C. Johnson...
...came by his combined role as archromantic and Peck's bad boy of modern poetry naturally enough. Boyhood in Cambridge and Harvard ('15) gave him a New England intellectual's self-assurance and the Thoreauesque tradition of rebellious individualism. Just as Cummings began writing verse, Ezra Pound and the Imagists had turned old poetic practice upside down. Cummings was quick to follow them in tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques, he said...
...Driver Cummings' precise account of prison camp life. Through most of all this, he continued to sound like a young poet alternately angry or moonstruck. It was an enormous limitation, and it made it easy to enumerate what he lacked that such poets as Frost and Eliot and Pound abundantly had. But it also led to Cummings' unique satirical and lyrical achievement, which caused Critic Allen Tate last week to declare that Cummings "had no superiors in his generation...
They were even ordered to check the two-pound parcels of food that pour into the hungry mainland at the rate of more than 1,000,000 a month. Day after the explosion that sealed the border, a bomb was found in a food parcel...