Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation, Robert Frost seemed a throwback; yet, while he adhered to established forms, he commanded a deceptively simple vision of man's vanities, his heart and his land. More experimental, and less accessible, were William Carlos Williams, a true avant-garde poet and master of the spare, stripped-down image, and Wallace Stevens, a pointillist of light, color and all intangible things. Marianne Moore, now 79, constructs unique mosaics from conversations, newspaper clippings and even scientific tracts...
...shown disapproval by withholding a few flashy planes and tanks -- a fact which never reached the Greek people. It is the minor hardware and spare parts that constitute the crucial part of America's $78.7 million in annual military aid. These materials must be withheld if the U.S. is to cripple the coup and demonstrate its concern for democracy to the Greek people...
Last week, while Mother wheeled and dealed, daughter spent her spare time in her bedroom listening to rock 'n' roll and contemplating a huge poster of her father. At times, Romina seems dazed by all the hoopla, as if she were trying to remember where she mislaid her childhood. Then, the little girl in her peeping through, she sighs: "I would like to play a fairy because it can make things happen, and it's pure and innocent and beautiful the way people basically...
More Than Peanuts. The result not only vindicated Martin Luther King's Montgomery bus boycott-it also keyed Johnson's whole judicial development. If a right applied in one area, he quickly applied it in another-always in spare, lucid opinions based on rock-hard facts. Thus, in 1963, Johnson broadened the Supreme Court's famous Gideon right-to-counsel decision (1961) by ruling that court-appointed lawyers must be paid for their services because the Constitution requires "effective" counsel. Congress soon followed with a law requiring payment in federal courts everywhere in the U.S. Conversely, last...
...world is bananas, watermelons and parsnips. Friday and Saturday the outdoor pushcart market comes to Dock Square, and the North End goes shopping. The vendors set up their pushcarts on Blackstone Street and enclose themselves in a square of crates. Pyramids of tomatoes and oranges. Baskets of brocholi. "A-spare-a-grass. Four pounds for 95 cents. A-spare-a-grass here," yells a short, bouncy vendor with a meaty face and big squashy hands. Rafts of watermelons. Buckets of native cukes--three for just 25 cents. "Hava pruna," shouts a jolly grandmother, holy in her dominion. A tough...