Word: sic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin." Bemused by the note, Republican Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln wrote back to Grace in October 1860: "As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?" Affection or not, Lincoln grew the beard and won the election. His note to Grace survived through three generations in her family, until it was sold at auction last week in Manhattan for $20,000 to TV Documentary Producer David Wolper...
...reducing the work of art to Its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comfortable (sic...
...sick of performing and wanted only to compose. During the summer, when the concert circuit closed down, he wrote music like a madman; and what he wrote, though not great music, is sometimes music of great fascination and historical importance. Busoni is an important moment of transition in mu sic. He falls between two styles, the romantic and the modern. In his struggle to reconcile the two, he helped to break up the romantic tradition and in his late compositions -the six Poly phonic Studies and the superb but rarely performed opera Doktor Faust -he struck out in the same...
...blue-and-white bus screeched to a stop outside Houston's Astrodome, with its cargo of the hottest - and angriest - team in sport. "C'mon, dammit!" yelled Manager Herman Franks. "Go get 'em! Sic 'em! Sic 'em!" The San Francisco Giants leaped to their feet and dashed for the door. " Kill!" screamed Outfielder Len Gabrielson "Kill! Kill! Kill!" It sounded pretty funny for a base ball team. But the Houston Astros learned to believe it. The Giants scored a run in the fourth inning, another in the fifth - and with the score tied...
...editorial offices in the TIME &; LIFE Building in the heart of Manhattan, just across the Avenue of the Americas from Radio City Mu sic Hall, may seem to be a long way from the farm. Yet there was more than a touch of nostalgia among the reporting-writing-editing team that worked on this week's cover story about American Farm Bureau President Charles Shuman...