Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the spit-and-polish service that Cover Writer Ed Magnuson knew in the years from 1944 to 1946, and again during Korea. "After a year of advanced training in electronics," he recalls, "my first assignments were to chip rust off the sides of a submarine tender and serve as a base telephone operator...
...trust Lerner." (Presumably, Coco Chanel also trusts Lerner.) The title role, naturally, is far more ticklish. The novel described Lolita as a "mixture of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity." And, as Humbert said, "you have to be an artist and a madman with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in order to discern by certain ineffable signs the little deadly demon among the wholesome children...
...Deliberately or otherwise, your splendid piece on my book [Nov. 16] reversed the title. I do not blame you, though. It took much hesitation to decide on Coexistence & Commerce rather than Commerce & Coexistence. My foreign publishers wisely skirted the issue. After toying with The Tender Sword, they settled on Weapons of Peace, which (don't you agree?) by any other name are just as tender...
...Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes' "high moral and ethical standards," he said, the New Jersey state constitution declares that "no person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience." Despite Eleanor Katherine's tender years, he continued, "the child should have the freedom to worship as she sees fit, and not be influenced by prospective parents who do not believe in a Supreme Being...
...sounding experts. That is Harrison's little joke. All the voices are George's, carefully overdubbed one at a time. Bob Dylan's influence can be felt everywhere. Their joint effort, I'd Have You Anytime (music by Harrison, words by Dylan) is as tender a love song as rock has any right to expect...