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Word: whoever (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works on both a symbolical-fantasy level and a representational one, a tension that recalls the effects of Jerzy Kozinski's vignettes in Steps. In what appears to be part of his "real world," Randy is absorbed momentarily by Progressive Labor, adopts a stringent Marxist line and announces that "whoever isn't a Marxist eats shit." The infusion of colloquial language lends a very real resonance to the book. Randy, finding the first few pages of Capital almost incomprehensible, suddenly becomes a coprophiliac. At this point, Author Innis begins to pull even this reality out from under the feet...

Author: By James E. Rosby, | Title: Books Riot Nights | 2/17/1971 | See Source »

...system (TIME cover, Dec. 21) may reduce this generation gap somewhat, but it is not only the enlisted men who find the Army wanting. A wonderfully articulate major, who read Timon of Athens during a slow day in Viet Nam, confided to his diary: "Once I was sure that whoever would be a good soldier must be an educated man. Slowly I shift from that conviction. An 'educated man'-in my terms-becomes disenchanted with an enterprise which cannot truly enlist his abilities, his experience, what he has in his heart of hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mission Impossible? | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...called gardening of the lunar surface attributed to bombardment by smaller meteorites-is occurring in at least some places at a much slower rate than had been supposed, thereby allowing the various layers to accumulate undisturbed for long periods of time. Cracked University of Chicago Chemist Edward Anders: "Whoever is in charge of the gardening of the moon is not doing a very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Changing the Lunar Image | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...opinion. whoever thinks Harvard Yard (my home) should be transformed into a parking lot or makes senseless war on this institution can take a running jump and go straight to hell...

Author: By Christopher H. Foreman, | Title: The Mail FROM THE IVORY TOWER | 1/22/1971 | See Source »

...more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George Anson and others. More notable, though, is the broad range of paintings and illustrations, and the fact that whoever did the captions miraculously knew a lot about things like rigging-and caption writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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