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Word: unstruck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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...when she compares a woman's breasts to wild carrot and onion blossoms or describes the mating of dinosaurs, she contrives to make neither an uncouth nor an arresting gesture. At the sight of a new sonnet sequence critics may hitch up to their typewriters and look for unstruck keys, but ordinary readers will prefer Poet Millay's less pretentious quatrains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sister Singers | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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