Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career Man. In Taipei, Formosa, the China Post reported speculation as to why Dr. Shen Chang-huan had been appointed Ambassador to Spain: "Because the last two words of his name sound like Don Juan; because he knows how to dance the tango; because he was born in the year of the Bull...
While the Crimson pitching has looked better and better as the spring has progressed, the team's hitting--though basically sound--has tailed off somewhat in its last few games. This is likely due, in part, to the bad slump that has recently overtaken third baseman Chet Boulris...
...only other subjects of concern in a relatively quiet year also sound vaguely familiar to more modern ears--the rising cost of attending Harvard, and the lack of adequate medical facilities. Faced with high tuition and service charges under depression conditions, many concluded that, while its President spoke about an "aristocracy of brains," Harvard was rapidly developing into an aristocracy of wealth...
Packard's examples of this struggle are frequently arresting-the builders who try to make their houses sound classy (Une maison ranch très originate), the executive who had his parents moved from an unfashionable cemetery to a posher last resting place. The trouble is that too much of what Author Packard observes is old hat, such as the upper-class preference for old hats over flashy new ones. He over-generalizes. One dubious example: Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to point to their past by living in Early American, white clapboard houses, while Jews prefer modern...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel disinfected, but still given the best movie treatment yet of any of his works...