Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly stable. You may not know what is coming next, but at least you always know your source. One always knows where one stands. Try to deny it--somewhere in the recesses of your cortex you've adopted a personal style, and whether your source is GQ, Tom Swift, the '60s, the JayCees or Starsky and Hutch, we're all in the same damnable boat...
...Epic implies a range of concerns that are completely in congrous with anything Raiders is aiming for. If anything, it's that pop-epic quality of the old double DC comies that the movie aspires to: the epic of the old serials or the best of the careening Tom Swift books in which the young Tom was always building some giant robot or other to mine gold on the moon and/or play tennis. In those worlds, there existed a natural order that we seem to gravitate to naturally. Swift & Company workers admired the hell out of the young...
...great love affairs would never have been put to paper. Heloise would not have written Abelard; Abelard would not have written back. Ben Franklin would have quashed his flirting wit; James Joyce his raging jealousies. There would have been none of the sublime torture of the letters of Swift and Vanessa; none of the zest of Franz Liszt...
Sitting in bed with her notebooks, she scribbled about anything and everything to pay off her creditors and hold the attention of her entranced public. There was her verse, her superior historical guide (Bath), two biographies of queens (Victoria of England, Fanfare for Elizabeth) and a novel about Jonathan Swift (I Live Under a Black...
...Harvard. Students ended their three-hour finals on January 19 by scribbling "the hostages are free!" in their blue books. And Bok sent welcome-home letters to the two Harvard alumni among the group held captive in Iran for 444 days. John W. Limbert '64 and Elizabeth Ann Swift '62. Later this spring, Swift accepted an offer to become a fellow at the University's Center for International Affairs for next year...