Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cunning Rider. Besides the irksome presence of such minuscule bills, there was always the danger that sloppy language or slippery shirttail riders would go through unnoticed in the rush. Last week a Senate amendment to deny poverty funds to civil rights rioters was passed - but only after its sponsor, Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd Jr., hurriedly rewrote it on the Senate floor because even he was unable to explain what his original wording meant. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse cunningly pasted a rider on the higher-education aid bill that, if passed, would grant home rule to the District...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Bloodletting in the groves of academe. Two faculty couples (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal) cut each other up with words, words and more words in a deft screen version of Edward Albee's play...
...VIRGINIA AYERS GRAZIER Dixon, Mont...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Bloodletting in the groves of academe. Two faculty couples (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal) cut each other up with words, words, and more words in a deft screen version of Edward Albee's play...
...Years of Gospel. Lekachman retells the major elements in the development of a genius: the patrician upbringing, the early triumphs at Eton and Cambridge, the cocksure rise in the British Treasury, the friendships with Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, the prolific outpouring of books, each more imaginative and important than the last. The climax, of course, was The General Theory, published in 1936, which argued heretically that economic cycles could be tamed and unemployment and inflation defeated by conscious government manipulation of national budgets, taxes and interest rates. In sum: man could control his economic fate...