Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the ministerial act that set angry South Africans of all shades jampacking Johannesburg's Market Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve...
As the big moment approached, no candidate could claim anywhere near a majority of solid, blitz-proof delegates. Like its well-remembered counterpart of 1940, this would be an open convention. Most of the convention's 1,094 votes were still uncommitted to any candidate. The delegates' decisions...
The criminal, 16-year-old, moronic Aaron Adams, is unimportant to the story. So are his two little-girl victims whom he picked up on their way to school. What really matters, says Jackson, is the effect of the crime, as the tabloids play all its angles across the board...
Few books should encourage a beginning writer as much as this one. An anthology of the best writing of the 42 Nobel Prizewinners*-from 1901 through 1947- should theoretically be a cross section of the 20th Century's best world literature. But the fact is, these masterpieces of the...
Much of the writing is dated. The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge seems a more imaginative creation 20 years after publication; but he also seems as unreal as the specters...