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...book. As soon as he completed the manuscript, he would move on to teach another course in another branch of economics in the interest of preventing boredom. For the same reason, Craig, Fairbank and Reischauer consistently lecture in Soc Sci 11 on the parts of the East Asian tome they didn't write. Loomis decided to leave his Math I teaching post as soon as the department voted to switch to his text several years ago. "I get embarrassed about using my own," Loomis confided. "Anyway, it's easier to use someone else's book. When you use your...
Pound praised II Duce in his book of 1935, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, for all of the usual things: "grano, bonifica, restauri, grain, swampdrainage, restorations, new buildings..." But clearly he was as much as anything else, carried away by his own rhetoric. In the same tome he called Mussolini an "OPPORTUNIST who is RIGHT," an "AWARE INTELLIGENCE," who was introducing "a new LANGUAGE in the debates in the chamber." He was according to Pound, a statesman of "deep 'concern' or will for the welfare of Italy," right down to "the last ploughman and the last girl in the oliveyards...." It seems...
...Inferno) Allen: The Swarm (bees do it) and The Day the World Ended. Each will cost well over $12 million. Paramount has in the works Dino De Laurentiis' remake of King Kong ($16 million or so). United Artists will ultimately release a version of Cornelius Ryan's tome on World War II, A Bridge Too Far, produced by Joseph E. Levine. UA's Apocalypse Now is a Viet Nam extravaganza presently being shot in the Philippines by Godfather Director Francis Ford Coppola. Total cost of the latter two movies: at least $30 million...
...fact that the leaders of the most populous nation on earth wish to discuss the future of this planet with Richard Nixon has an inescapable meaning tome...
...returned to America, still an unknown, and carved her name into more small books of poetry. Seventh Heaven began with a lot of lesbian imagery. Then came another silver of a tome, this one more heterosexual bent. She hated her female body from the beginning...