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...allow us to go right by it. Instead, sightseers got a good look at Quincy House, home of Boston City Council candidate Larry DiCara: But we weren't told about Larry. As we peered into the Quincy courtyard, we saw frisbies flying through the air, as they are wont to do. "Looks like they're studying hard." one woman said to her husband. "Surprised they can see the frisbies with all that hair in their eyes...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: And, to your left, Harvard University | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

Reviewers were wont to acclaim Forman's earlier filmed anecdotes for exposing the drabness of life in an industrial socialist state. His method: to depict characters whose development is short-circuited by necessary compromise to the social structure. That Forman would make the same kind of film in the United State indicates that his vision is more suited to the acceptance of a restrictive state than criticizing...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Films From Fair to Middling | 5/20/1971 | See Source »

...other numbers like the animation seemed to be saccharine rather than pungent but as mehitabel is wont to say wotthehell wotthehell mine not to complain i am just a roach on the loaf of life glad to be recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Golden Nonsense | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...Abdullah, Hussein's grandfather, made it the capital of his new kingdom in 1921. Most of the country's Bedouins roamed Transjordan's eastern deserts, proud and hawklike men who scorned as inferiors the Arabs in cities. Allah made the Bedouin and the camel, they were wont to say, and then Allah made the town Arab out of the camel's droppings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Other Jordanians | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...that the masses will necessarily succeed in overwhelming wealthy men and nations, but that those men and nations in order to continue their picnic [ sic ] will necessarily subjugate completely or else totally destroy the unmanageable majority of those masses; literally, they will alter the world's reality which is wont, by destroying those who want even a small portion of what the wealthy have...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: When the trial for these suspects ends, people are going to be very bewildered about... 'why?' | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

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