Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another. Therefore, to retain the integrity of the universe, he and his followers are going to attack Earth around 1974. Not out of malice, but as a favor. He feels that by providing us with a common enemy, we will attain solidarity. Then he said something about a word to the wise, but 1 didn't catch...
...chairman of the central cam paign committee, whom the civilian candidates themselves had appointed. The chairman had failed to give the province chief the correct information. But even though the reception committee found itself at the wrong airstrip, Thieu continued, it rushed to Dong Ha once it got the word. If the candidates had waited only 15 minutes longer, they would have been properly convoyed to the rally...
...outspoken Russian poet is as good as his word. He spits when the mood strikes him, and he seems care less of the consequences. When Nikita Khrushchev personally upbraided him for his unconventional poetry, Voznesensky stubbornly refused to recant. When critics attacked him for formal ism, which in Soviet jargon means experimenting with the language, Voznesensky replied in verse: "They nag me about formalism./Formaldehyde: you stink of it and incense." He helped to stir up the Soviet Writers Congress last May by signing a letter boldly calling for an end to Soviet censorship. Last week copies of a Voznesensky...
Last week it looked as though Damon's vale had held a double meaning: there was an unsolved matter of $ 1,000,000 and who it belonged to. Semenenko was out of touch on a yacht cruising the Mediterranean, but from Boston came word that he had agreed to turn over to the bank a $1,000,000 fee due him over a ten-year period for "special services" to Moviemaker Jack L. Warner. One such service: arranging the sale last year of Warner's stock in Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. to Seven Arts Productions Ltd., which Semenenko...
Death Kit unfortunately contains the blunted instruments of the avant-garde movement and Freudian criticism. The novel is studded with little messages to critics and longhairs that Something Is Going On: the word now usually appears in parentheses; passages of various sorts are indented; there are interruptions for long Dos Passos-like lists that, unlike her enumerations of the artifacts of camp, don't add up. Worst of all, there are dreams-long, logical un-dreamlike dreams that exhaust the read er even faster than they do Diddy. Yet for all its flights, most of the writing is conventional...