Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Novelist-Scholar Nabokov (Pale Fire) has translated Alexander Pushkin's remarkable 19th century novel-in-verse with a sense of accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original Russian than any previous version. Nabokov's supplementary volumes of notes provide the amusing, exasperating and always impressive sight of a crusty literary personality in action...
...Fleet Street, it was the second Battle of Hastings. To Hastings, now a drab south-coast resort town, it was simply the bloody awfullest sight since William the Conqueror. Mothers locked their children safe indoors, merchants closed their shops and pulled down the blinds, sedate middle-aged couples on the beach fled for cover. The Mods and the Rockers had come to town...
...indicator, has stayed flat for many months. The more sensitive index developed by the National Bureau of Economic Research has been rising, and the consumer price index has been rising steadily too - but at a pace that economists consider normal. For the present, no serious inflationary spiral is in sight. Last week President Johnson expressed his opposition in strong terms to any broad steel price increase. Said he: "If you had a price increase, it would strongly conflict with our national interest in price stability. We think that stability is essential to sustain a strong expansion in jobs and output...
Timing & Fading. Orchestra Number One was on the stage in the Tanglewood shed under the maestro's baton; Two and Three were on the shed floor at either side of the stage; Four ended up nearly out of sight under a canopy normally used by the audience to walk from the parking lot to the shed. Four's conductor, English Horn Player Louis Speyer, had a closed-circuit TV screen in front of him to show him Conductor Leinsdorf, and earphones, which gave him the beat of the other orchestras...
...Holt, the great, hairy headmaster, would roar: "Get out of this room! I'm sick of the sight of you! Report yourself on detention for a month. If you're absent from chapel, the prefects will take care of it. Get out of my sight!" A dozen of the best would be the lot of Hoiden Caulfield, just for not believing a lot of crummy stuff about...