Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invited to the Quai d'Orsay while preparing to visit New York, "Genêt" decided to skip what she thought was just a social reception. When she walked in on New Yorker Editor Harold Ross in Manhattan a few days later, he greeted her sourly: "I see you have got the Légion d'Honneur, and I don't think too highly...
...from the twisted, Donne-like prayers of colonial minister Edward Taylor to a fine elegy by 31-year-old Robert Lowell. To introduce the poems, Rodman has written a breathless essay which takes the reader on a dizzy, profitless tour of American poetic history. Most readers will prefer to skip Rodman's off-the-hip grading of American poets and go directly to their work. On the whole, his selections are very good. He has omitted such chestnuts as The Raven and 0 Captain! My Captain! and included less well-known poems. The book is spiced by anonymous folk...
...right nor to the left: the golden middle way.' This man with the beard has no outlook of his own. The right and the left have their definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form of revolution . . . whence the high comedy of the golden middle path...
Bolles refuses to worry about Yale's powerful Freshman aggregation that downed the Harvard yearlings last June. He dismisses the threat with, "That was the slowest Freshman crew Harvard has had since I've been here." He is just as unperturbed by the extensive training program that Eli coach Skip Walz has put his charge through since last fall, and he even shrugs off the fact that every rival crew has already been in the water for several weeks. "You can only train a crew just so long," is the Bolles theory...
...battering Rodgers took a close decision from Skip Lord. Lord was able only partially to tie up Tommy's sledge hammer right but towards the end was landing his own right fairly frequently. Rodgers, who fought in semi-finals earlier in the evening, exhibited the same slashing books that won him the 1947 crown...