Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from the three columns. For example, 257 produces "systematized logistical projection," which has the ring of absolute authority and means absolutely nothing. Broughton's bafflegab guide...
Almost instinctively, the four began their work with a pilgrimage to the hippie encampment in Lincoln Park. It was mutual love at first sight. Hippies fondled Ginsberg's black beard and flowing tresses; Genet showered dollar bills on the hippies and received a hippie ring in return. "They are so beautiful; they are such angels," he murmured. The convention that the four were supposed to be covering was less to their taste. "Boring and unoriginal" snapped Genet. So he and his colleagues decided to return to the idyllic delights of Lincoln Park, only to run into a clash with...
...said Alfred Lunt, 76. The quiet celebration took place on the Lunts' 110-acre country place in the rolling dairyland west of Milwaukee, where they have lived since their last major stage appearance in The Visit eight years ago. But the two troupers are still not ready to ring down the final curtain. Says Mrs. Lunt: "I'd probably swing back into my job if something really good came along." Says Mr. Lunt: "It's not over yet, you know...
...more significantly: it has sold far beyond the usual boundaries of the country market. This is not entirely new for Cash. In his dozen years as a top recording performer, he has broken out of the country category with nationwide pop hits several times before (I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire). But the Folsom album seems to appeal to a wider, more diverse audience than anything else he has evej done; it ranks among the top choices of the bestseller charts not only for country music but also for pop, and it has received glowing reviews in the underground...
This is a high-pitched book, but not only to Australians will the pitch ring true. What Keneally is saying is that out of man's appalling origins, grace and art will come, through courage. His story is as lovely and as spare as a falcon stooping...