Word: angus
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS by Angus Wilson. 302 pages. Viking Press...
...writer, such fame was unprecedented then, and has been unimaginable since. Not just fame, either, but ardor and devotion. In The World of Charles Dickens, English Novelist Angus Wilson suggests that Dickens, publishing most of his works in serial form, achieved the same intimate, regular contact with his audience as Scheherazade in his childhood favorite, The Arabian Nights. Dickens kept telling another tale. Jokes and fantasies, social and political critiques, plummy visions of Christmas swept from his pen. He even wrote a front-page article in his own magazine, Household Words, to explain and justify the breaking...
...been a Scoutmaster, Sunday school teacher, World War II Marine sergeant and smart-stepping bandsman (trumpet) at the University of Arkansas. He took over the family store when his parents were killed in a 1949 auto crash, later sold it to buy a 360-acre farm and raise Angus cattle. He sold some of the cattle to finance his campaign against Faubus...
...length of the town. Occupying 175 acres, the rambling, green-hilled properties are actually 67 acres larger than Vatican City. Some of the property is given over to a modern dairy farm-reputed to be one of the most efficient in Europe-some to an experiment in raising Black Angus cattle for possible widespread use in Italy. There is also a modern chicken farm, and nearly 1,800 olive trees. A floor of the four-story papal palace, which covers about 2½ acres, is occupied by the Jesuits who man the observatory on the roof...
Domed silos stand like sentinels on the horizon. Black Angus cattle amble toward lopsided gray barns. Giant TV antennas, strung with a maze of guy wires, soar 30 ft. above tiny farmhouses. Irrigation ditches run to nowhere. And standing forlornly in fields of stubble corn, boys in blue denim coveralls stare back, but they do not wave...