Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON by Richard M. Ketchum. 275 pages. American Heritage. $25. "I am embarked on a wide Ocean, boundless in its prospect and from whence, perhaps, no safe harbour is to be found." The message has a contemporary ring just now, but its words were offered in June 1775 by George Washington after he agreed to become the first commander in chief of the new Continental Army. With textblocks and many illustrations, plus graceful historical essays, Editor and Popular Historian Richard Ketchum creates a sound and extraordinarily detailed portrait of the man and his times during the years...
...hope." He concludes with a phrase that a dozen years ago would have brought cries of "Banal old fogy!" from all the Angry Young Men. "The worst doesn't always happen," he writes. Today, in a world that will settle for less, the words mean more-even ring with a certain Colonel Blimp gallantry. How Snow readers have changed! How Snow has stayed the same! ·Melvin Maddocks
...casual dress. "It's important for me to continue to stop in cafes, to keep my curbside office that allows me to walk down the street and do business." In becoming the highest-ranking woman in U.S. politics, she has been inescapably catapulted nationally into the center ring, and will continue to enjoy that most pleasant of political perks: gainsaying further aspirations...
...America by the small steel multiples he made in the '60s, glittering machine-age bibelots. The larger work is a very different matter. Even more than the paintings, Bill's sculptures begin with a baldly simple form but end as mysteriously contemplative apparitions. Construction from a Ring (1940-41) is a fat torus or ring sliced in half and then set up with one half balanced on the other. It is a geometrical form, like the three-dimensional mathematical models that made an indelible impression on Bill when he saw them at the Musée Poincar...
...matchmakers were counting dollars, they were also wondering when All would return to the ring for another payday-in a rematch with Foreman, perhaps, or a third fight with Joe Frazier. All talk of quitting the ring evaporated. "I'm not gonna retire for a while," declared Ali. "I might fight again, but they gotta get up $10 million before I think...