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Word: refrains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rock and roll band." But in doing so they created a trap, and the Stones now are criticized for being just a good band playing good music. It is no coincidence that the Stones' last album and its leading cut are entitled "It's Only Rock and Roll" (the refrain: "and I like it, like it, yes I do"). The album conveys a humbler, more human appeal. Here, even the Stones "ain't too proud to beg," and the now admittedly mortal Jagger sings "time waits for no one and it won't wait for me". Unable to sustain their...

Author: By Margaret ANN Hamburg, | Title: Black and Blue | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...Union. Paradoxically, continued American intransigence will only weaken the PCI's ability to maintain its distance from Moscow by undermining its contention that there is a "third way" between East and West. American policy makers should abandon their cold war vision of a monolithic international Communist movement, and resolutely refrain from interfering with Italian moves toward the historic compromise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward The Historic Compromise | 5/7/1976 | See Source »

Paul S. Goodof '71, assistant senior tutor of Eliot House, said yesterday that the Eliot House policy is to refrain from offering senior singles, because they place an unfair burden on sophomores and juniors...

Author: By F. JOSEPH Connolly and M. BRETT Gladstone, S | Title: Overcrowding Forces Cutback In Number of Senior Singles | 4/28/1976 | See Source »

...inundated with 3,000 poems a month. Nearly 400 books of poetry are published in the U.S. each year. Antaeus Editor (and poet) Daniel Halpern optimistically calls this a "blossoming of talent," but there is a darker side to the phenomenon. Poet Louis Simpson voices a common refrain when he complains that "there are few readers of poetry of any kind." Statistics bear him out. Poetry is a prestigious loss-leader on publishers' lists. The book of verse that sells more than 2,000 copies is a bona fide success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Poetry: School's Out | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...Massage on the same site last month. Baldwin, an ex-boxer, hotly denies any sexual services at Monica's. Word around town is that he is almost correct: voyeurism is the main attraction, with a little masturbatory help here and there. Mayor Kew offers the familiar refrain: "Much to our dismay, there was nothing we could do; just make sure they abide by the codes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Mason City: A Porn-Fed Town | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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