Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winter, customers were squirreling money away in savings accounts, but the return of spring has put them in a mood to spend again. The Administration, too, has fertilized the economy with some extra cash. A billion dollars was turned back in the form of earlier-than-usual G.I. insurance dividends, and the higher withholding rate on federal income taxes has guaranteed a spendable rebate for many a taxpayer...
Although all three episodes pretend to be offering a mature view of a difficult time of life, only the central one, Genevieve, avoids being kid stuff. In it, two French Canadian girls travel to the winter carnival in Montreal. On the way Louise (Louise Marleau) shows some photographs of a young man to her friend Genevieve. His first name, she says, is Bernard; his last name is "hands off." But Genevieve can't keep her hands to herself, and eventually she loses a girl friend by stealing a boy friend. As the junior vamp, Canada's Genevieve Bujold...
...message Volpe would ask the legislature to study the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime and to suspend executions until the study is completed. This proposal is similar to one field last winter with the legislature by Joseph F. McCormack, chairman of the state Parole Board. Unfortunately, when McCormack's bill came up for consideration, Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler, had just escaped from the Bridgewater State Hospital, and in the excitement it and other legislation seeking to eliminate the death penalty was rejected...
This past week Parker has continued to try different combinations in his varsity shell and line-ups are not yet set for tomorrow's contest. Finalized boatings have been impossible because weather caused a three-week delay in getting out on the river this winter...
...rhymes, and some extremely forceful language, is loosely constructed and lacks the clarity of the other pieces. The police in the last stanza of "The Opposite House, the lion and the kitten in "Central Park," the end of "Fourth of July" set in the firelight in the dead of winter--these are all memorable moments in this collection,and by no means all of them. The short poem "For Theodore Roethke" is a moving testimonial, in which the sea is used in one more imaginative way by Lowell, while the sonnet "1958," an impressionistic series of recollections, seems poor...