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...Some other U.S. university
Though Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck et al. never use the old-fashioned language of theology, the world they describe is a world where the people are predestined to the damnation of death, defeat, madness or senility. In The Lost Weekend, an unevenly brilliant first novel, the sense of damnation is strong. But even stronger is the sense of suspense−will he escape? why can't he escape? why doesn't the damn fool answer that telephone?0−which is the quality that makes the hopeless tale into a horror story, luring the reader...
...year-had a lot of snow, one storm on top of the other. We were able to accumulate quite a few hundred dollars in snow money with which I was able to pay off the debt to the doctor. Then of course, little odds and ends came -the boy, et cetera, et cetera. I want to impress you gentlemen that I haven't been able to replace one piece of furniture that I bought since I married. I had to turn my bed over to my children because it's too weak to hold me and my wife...
...request by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers (600,000 members) to "take us back as we are." The A.F. of L. was willing to take back the miners who left the A.F. of L. in 1936, but insisted on further haggling about the dairy farmers, chemical workers, et al. whom Lewis has collected in his catch-all District...
...neighboring Argentina. The group of Army jingoes called "The Colonels," led by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron and nominally headed by President-General Pedro Ramirez, has defied the U.S., the United Nations, its Latin neighbors. Almost certainly "The Colonels" instigated the revolt of Gualberto Villarroel in Bolivia (TIME, Jan. 3., et seq.}. Probably the Argentine junta has plotted similar moves in other countries, will plot again...