Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touched and proud to find your paper commemorating my twenty-first birthday (issue of November 25, page 8). I guess it just slipped by nine years ago when it happened, and I was a junior. But that's all right, I know how busy you are up there, getting out a paper every...
...Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader charged last week that railroading "is the only industry I know of where a company has made toilet maintenance part of its cost-cutting program." In an angry demand for Government action, Nader continued: "The railroads have tried to make toilets so dirty that people just won't use them. That is just part of the total effort to drive passengers away...
...mellow tale about an eleven-year-old lad named Lucius McCaslin and his wild-eyed adventures on a trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers one of the year's most pleasant movie experiences...
...Jews. One of 36 just men whose existence and virtue is supposed to protect the world from Jehovah's wrath, the Wufnik must justify the ways of the world before God. It is a hard but absorbing job, which lasts as long as the Wufnik does not know that he has it. Once a man discovers that he is really a Lamed Wufnik, he immediately drops dead and the title passes to somebody else...
...read to, mostly from favorite writers whom his intellectual admirers disdain: Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows differently for the blind," he admits. "It flows easier. I am not bored when I am alone. Circumstances are easily forgotten. A sleepless night is made up only of time, not thinking. I know two twilights: the twilight of the dove [morning] and the raven [evening]. One is blindness, the other...