Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freakish offshoot of modern literature, Firbank was actually a great innovator, Powell suggests. Two masters of dialogue, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh, sat in Firbank's school. In fact, Firbank's exotics-improbable princesses, epicene cardinals, Caribbean market queens and so on-talk with the raw strength of Hardy's Wessex peasants. Even Hemingway's brusque and hirsute mannerisms, Powell argues, may owe something to the ambiguous ellipses of the characters in Ronald Firbank's fairy kingdoms...
...Nobody doubts that the E.E.C. is a highly dynamic group of nations. Aided by the Marshall Plan and an ever-increasing amount of U.S. investment, it has accomplished far more among the Six than the Labour Government of 1945 ever hoped for in Britain. The members have developed new raw materials, a newly skilled labor force, and a new approach to long-range planning; both capital and labor begin to move freely among them. By 1970, when the last internal tariffs are removed, the Common Market ought to be a glowingly healthy economic organism. Not so the British Commonwealth...
...current tests in the atmosphere; yet the very undertaking of these tests defied not only world opinion, but also all the years of Soviet propaganda invested in the pretense of seeking a ban on nuclear testing. So defiant a stroke must have been well worth it-in terms of raw military power...
...setting of the Bowmans' ordeal was a middle-class neighborhood of raw houses that rise up from the Pacific Ocean south of the Golden Gate Bridge. In April 1960, the terror began. The windows were shot out of their living room with a BB gun, and next day the windshield of their car was smashed with a volley from a pellet gun. Between April 15 and July 30, the living room windows were shot out four times and the car's windows were blasted seven times. On July 18, white paint was poured over the car and caked...
Instant Flop. In an era of football specialization, versatile Paul Hornung, 25, seems as obsolete as the drop kick. He cannot rifle a pass with the artistic precision of a Unitas. He cannot crunch through the encircling arms of defensive linemen with the raw power of a Brown. He does nothing perfectly-but he does everything well. He runs, he passes, he kicks field goals and extra points. And he does one thing better than anyone else in pro football: scores points. Last year Hornung scored 176 to break an 18-year-old N.F.L. record; in five games this season...