Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pocket Book titles include "Star Trek," the book of the movie; a Star Trek calendar and "The Official Star Trek Enterprise Officer's Datebook 1980." Deborah Gallagher, sales clerk for Harvard Bookstore, estimated sales of the novelized Star Trek at about 15 a week, an above average record...
Last Tuesday marked the eve of the first day of the year 1400, according to the Islamic calendar. Accounts of the mosque takeover vary, but it appears that a band of about 200 armed men entered the courtyard, filled with 50,000 worshipers, shortly before the start of dawn prayers. The men wore the traditional black robes and red-and-white checked headdresses of the National Guard irregulars. They carried coffins-a common enough sight, since mourners often bring coffins to the mosque for dawn prayers before burial. These coffins apparently contained pistols, rifles, submachine guns, hand grenades and daggers...
Auden's shipboard squall may have been uncharacteristic, but it should clearly be given more biographical weight than his social calendar. Yet Auden's reticence about himself may hamper all potential biographers. To his lasting credit, he believed that the dark demons could be hedged in by civility, and he acted on this belief: "A suffering, a weakness, which cannot be expressed as an aphorism should not be mentioned." His love poem "Lullaby" is beautiful and moving precisely because of its reasoned equivocations, its rational tethers on emotion...
...wide unions such as IBM or Du Pont announcing some day that it was starting cost-of-living allowances in order to "keep the union organizers off their front lawns." Okun warns that if such automatic inflation pay increases spread into nonunion firms, "you can mark that on your calendar as a black day for fighting inflation...
...mark it down on my calendar and I'll have something pithy to say about the 344th," he said...