Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another approach is to realize that to day's youngsters tend to detect false notes and are not readily dazzled by packaging, so the publisher simply lets young writers have their say in blunt, un affected prose on plain, tabloid-sized newsprint. Rolling Stone, the San Fran cisco-based rock-'n'-roll newspaper-mag azine, is doing well by doing just that...
...Will Harvard roll back rents in their buildings...
...like to remark on how carefully I think Slaughterhouse-Five was written. I've always thought that the best rock 'n' roll groups were the ones that worked on it a lot; the best writers, the ones that worked on it a lot; the best writers, the ones that threw most of it away. It would guess Vonnegut edits lots. This book is really great in its detail. Writing, especially in a style of such overwhelming simplicity as Vonnegut's, is a matter of manipulating prepositions, adverbs, and, above all, articles. In the contemporary American idiom, at least, the whole...
BROADWAY '69-THE TONY AWARDS (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The cream of Broadway assembles to give and receive recognition for the past year's plays and performances; co-hosts are Alan King and Diahann Car roll. Among those presenting awards will be Dustin Hoffman, Gwen Verdon and Leslie Uggams...
...next stop was the Bick. I ordered their $1.50 steak for protein, and turned down the guy's offer of french fries and a roll three times. I sat down with my steak and surveyed the list of entrants in the Marathon, printed in the newspaper. I went through all 1100 of the runners without finding my name. Trouble. I started through again, and finally, there I was, number 527. Now I was psyched...