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...GRACE M. BRUSH...
...more. Hollywood scriptwriters cannot seem to shake the notion that knights and their ladies were intellectuals, whose every conversation sparkled with neat phrases, like a Stevenson campaign speech. Although they have unshakled the dialogue somewhat from Scott's pedantic and dated prose, they fall far short of realism. The brush off the villian by the heroine, usually accomplished clearly by "get out, you varlet," becomes: "Farewell, and may each stone of this vaulted roof find a tongue to echo it into your...
While one of the men stood by with a shotgun, Mrs. Hill called her cleaning woman to tell her that the car had broken down and she couldn't pick her up. A Fuller brush salesman telephoned, and she asked him to deliver the brushes she had ordered some other day. At 4 p.m., when Susan and Betsy came home from school and found Ballard guarding their mother (the other two had gone out somewhere on an errand), they thought it was some kind of joke...
Gentlemen & Sluts. East of Eden is a 250,000-word whopper that slowly spreads from the Civil War to World War I. In form it is a two-family saga (with a double Cain & Abel theme) in which the family destinies brush each other so slightly as to make East of Eden two novels between the same set of boards. Adam Trask, the hero of one of the novels, was born in Connecticut in 1862. He did not reach California and meet the Hamiltons (Steinbeck's folks) until 1900, but he already had quite a story...
...Brush Block. In Albuquerque, the University of New Mexico's athletic department painted the home team's dressing room bright, "exciting" red; the opposing team's in "pacifying pastels...