Word: tims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priest, reported the Reaper, is Lei Tim-oi, 30, a onetime deaconess...
Returning from last year's squad are Captain Mark Tuttle and Jim Foley, both NROTC men. In addition to these veterans, Mikkola will have a flock of newcomers including half-miler Tim Canty, V-12 transfer from Tufts, Wayne Homans of the NROTC, Freshman civilian Sid Correll, and V-12 Charlie Atwell, Jack Noble, and Mat Dick...
Viconian Thunderclap. Finnegans Wake, say Campbell and Robinson, "is a mighty allegory of the fall and resurrection of mankind." (Tim Finnegan was originally the hero of an Irish vaudeville song who falls off a ladder and is thought to be dead until a friend splashes whiskey over him at the funeral wake.) The four parts of Joyce's novel reflect Italian Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vice's theory that history eternally passes and repasses through four phases: theocratic, aristocratic, democratic, chaotic. Finnegans Wake suggests that life has again reached the stage of chaos and is awaiting a divine thunderclap...
...very funny man as evidenced by his successful appearances before tough night-club audiences in Boston and New York. In "Follow the Girls," however, he is given such pathetic material that he is reduced to absurd gesturing a la Milton Berle. The same applies to Buster West and Tim Herbert, with the former faring a little better because of a superior stage presence that serves him well when the proceedings become absolutely moronic...
...Tim is killed in the war. Devon, saddened by life and threatened by hag-lines, prepares to market her latest perfume, Midnight Tears...