Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essence. To Ev Dirksen, the answer to that question is simple enough. "I come of immigrant German stock," he says. "My mother stood on Ellis Island as a child of 17, with a tag around her neck directing that she be sent to Pekin, Illinois. Our family had opportunities in Illinois, and the essence of what we're trying to do in the civil rights bill is to see that others have opportunities in this country...
...Santa Claus of loneliness" was W. H. Auden's tag for his fellow poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke did not look like Santa Claus-more like the man who shot him. Beneath a nobly domed forehead, pale eyes glared out from a meanly featured face. This repellent countenance would on rare occasions be relieved by an unpleasant smile. Yet for all his unprepossessing appearance, he had the pride of Lucifer himself. He insisted on his aristocratic descent...
...most publishers simply because the winning book and its author were almost unknown. In fact, Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village had almost gone unpublished: scholarly presses, including Harvard, had turned it down as "too specialized" before it was accepted by Wesleyan in Connecticut. With its $15 price tag, many bookstores had not bothered to stock it; hardly more than 1,000 copies had been sold; immediately after the Pulitzer announcement the book was almost unobtainable...
...official figures are undoubtedly very conservative, as they include only those who checked in at one of the Lauderdale Department of Recreation's "Welcome booths," and paid their quarter for a tag and key chain ("COLLEGIATE GUEST -- JAYCEES PANHELLENIC -- FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.") that would admit them to all the planned activities for as long as they stayed...
This year, as soon as anyone bought his registration tag in Lauderdale, he received an eight-page promotional piece, which listed all the churches in town and about sixty places where he might find accomodations. It announced all the planned activities...