Word: relics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returnable beverage bottle has become a sort of industrial relic. So has that once hallowed implement to puncture beer cans, the "church key." But their more convenient replacements-the no-deposit, no-return bottle and the pull-tab can-are now too much in evidence. Americans annually gulp the contents of some 40 billion bottles and 50 billion cans. The one-time-only use results in massive littering...
...ludicrous conceit that his wife (Patricia Elliot) and his mistress ought to be equal paragons of fidelity. This tangled skein of love and its counterfeits is happily unraveled in Act II at the country house of the actress's mother (Hermione Gingold), an old crone and an amorous relic of the King of the Belgians who bestowed a duchy upon her. Her philosophy: "Solitaire is the only thing in life that demands absolute honesty...
...hasty, and to maintain that the colleges ought to be granted an opportunity of amending the rules, so as to eliminate the objectionable features of the game, before the game is unconditionally 'prohibited." In 1885, the paper expanded its sports department. In place of the single Sporting Editor, a relic from the earliest days of the paper, the Board voted to elect "Special sporting correspondents." These writers were men who were themselves involved in the different Varsity sports--many of them as active participants. If their reporting was biased (and sometimes it was), remember that The Crimson...
...HAVEN, Conn,--At a Yale fraternity, the bartender, a relic of the days when old St. Paul's and Groton boys would gather around his domain and jovially drink themselves into oblivion, lamented a bigone era as he sat alone in the darkened club house early last Tuesday evening...
...whatever. He should study the fresh and definitive Antony of Marlon Brando in the movie. I do, however, like the way Hecht points out the several cuts in Caesar's mantle, which he carries from person to person so that each many touch it as a sort of holy relic--a bit of business that ties in neatly with the ritualistic slow-motion "sacrifice...