Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged that the post be filled because "it does no harm and may, who knows...
Curle's twin preoccupations with violence and underdevelopment are drawing him more and more into the problems of America's urban ghettos. Currently teaching African history one day a week in Patrick-Campbell Junior High School--one of Roxbury's worst schools--Curle is increasingly struck with the parallels between the underdeveloped world and what he now calls "the underdeveloped parts of the developed world...
Brown is not a great team, but it has enjoyed phenominal success against Cornell. In both teams' Ivy opener, the Bruins won. 6-3. That performance was rated Brown's best, just as its Harvard loss is generally considered its worst...
...Harburg seems to have completely missed the lyrical revolution epitomized by Frank Loesser's How to Succeed, in which words like "Some irresponsible dress manufacturer" were set to music. The lyrics to Married Alive are still drawn from the same preposterous vocabulary (love, tree, rainbow, etc.) that dominated the worst of Hart and Hammerstein...
When Lawyer Stephen Greer-close friend and adviser to President Paul Roudebush-vanishes from the capital, the press and Washington officialdom suspect the worst. Is he in financial trouble? Has he fled the country to avoid exposure as a homosexual? If not, why did he spend so many nights in a certain apartment with a university professor? If President Roudebush knows the answer, he isn't talking-not even to Press Secretary Eugene Culligan, the narrator of this latest example of presidential pulp fiction...