Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...framework of archy's little satire is altered by the same slight over-acting of the Boss (Belden Crane Johnson), the journalist who keeps archy supplied with typing paper and apple peelings. He delivers his story not in the style of the unperturbed old hack, calling 'em as he sees 'em, but with dramatic pauses and grimaces of amazement. He most clearly regards a literate cockroach as a big deal; an obvious, flat point of view...
Citing testimony of the literary experts, Whittemore argued that Fanny Hill is less a problem than many four-letter-word books that have not been banned. He said it "appears of slight, if any, weight, and not worth the attention that efforts to ban inevitably bring...
...basis of comparative scores and an improving Crimson attack, the Crimson might rate a slight edge if they were able to play at full strength...
...hoped to present nothing less than a discussion of the quality, meaning, purposes, and future of liberal education--surely a topic worthy of the thickest and most scholarly of quarterlies. But, although the Review managed to snare some big names, they have written articles which are too often slight, too seldom provocative. The Harvard Review hasn't the prestige to command original, first-rate pieces from the first-rate minds which are necessary to deal with the ambitious subject...
...Though the unemployment rate in March dropped to 4.7%, the lowest point in seven years, and the Labor Department last week announced that manufacturing jobs have reached a 21-year high, White House economists and Labor Department officials fear that the gain is only temporary and that the first slight slow-up in economic growth will send the unemployment rate climbing toward 5% again...