Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Randolph Hearst Jr., 54, titular heir to his father's empire, the new deal in San Francisco seemed something of a coup, and he could not resist a brag: after all, said Hearst, "we got a whole newspaper for practically nothing." It was certainly a cut-rate way to restore a full link to Hearst's dwindling newspaper chain-now down to twelve, including San Francisco, from a highwater mark of 26. But beyond that, the deal had other significance...
...they could on the outside. Instructorships paying $6,000 or so a year are common; a couple with two instructorships is in clover. In Palo Alto, one couple will move next month into a comfortable new house paid for mostly by a generous Stanford stipend. And hardly anyone can resist a "traveling fellowship"-the splendid European jaunt that so often produces scholars mainly versed in Vespas, Parisian girls, conversational Swedish, Oxbridge accents and appetites for paella...
...stock market acted yesterday like a diver going off a springboard," reported the New York Times in a heavy-handed attempt at cuteness. "It went up, down, up, and then plunged." The New York Post ran straight-faced an optimistic handout from a brokerage firm ("Chemical stocks should resist further market weakness"). In Birmingham. Ala., the News managed to get through the whole week without carrying a single line about the market...
...likely to get by the deadline are some 60,000 controlled by Jerry K. Nicholson, 32, son of the Times-Picayune's longtime editor, Leonard K. Nicholson, who died in 1952. Although Jerry wants to keep the papers in the family, and has appealed to stockholders to resist the little man (5 ft. 3 in.) with the big purse, his campaign has small chance of success. By week's end, Newhouse was collecting commitments from stockholders at a rate that assured him the actual control he seeks...
Poet Marianne Moore's essay is, predictably, the best of the lot. But it is the nature of Stevens' work that phrases from his poems describe it better than any the critics can invent. Poetry, he said, "must almost resist intelligence." Only Randall Jarrell knows when he's licked: "Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around," he writes in perhaps the book's most apt judgment. Characteristic of Stevens' artful use of assonance and word-echoes to make a little something out of nothing much, is a stanza from...