Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made, a thousand years ago, a-many songs For an excellent lady, wif whom...
...less unpleasant state. The sonneteer seems doomed to an unrewarded labor. Unable to predict his next reaction, confused about the painful progression of his feelings, trying even to be honest even about his dishonesty--"for poets are eigned to lie, and I / For you a liar am a thousand times." Perhaps his most significant lie is the most implicit: he assumes the continued intensity of his love for Lise, judges his victory by the extent of her involvement in the affair. He succeeds, of course, in enticing her fully into skulking love: but then he discovers he must have...
Like Jane & Cheetah. Next night in Milwaukee, 2,823 Republicans jammed into the Municipal Arena for another $100-a-plate affair, while several thousand more paid $5 apiece to listen from the balcony. Reagan, who may have been raiding Bob Hope's gag file, started off with a string of japes: "We have some hippies in California. For those of you who don't know what a hippie is, he's a fellow who has hair like Tarzan, who walks like Jane, and who smells like Cheetah...
WILLIAM STYRON shares the belief of his good friend James Baldwin that white men create their own Negroes. Like any Southerner, Styron has heard the same myth a thousand times: how people up North just don't know the Negro like we do down here, how we have had wonderful relationships with the family Negroes for over 20 years, and how we both prefer social distance from each other. Styron also knows that the Southern racial stigma is based more on a lack of contact than on friction or closeness. There still exists a deeply feared law of apartheid...
...people in Tommy's were quietly afraid and didn't look up when they asked the score; and fifty-four thousand ugly, hungry fans chortled in their Budweiser when their team took the field. But Boston's Other Hero. Jim Lonborg, fired a three hit almost-shutout past St. Louis to bring the Series back home to Boston...