Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...where Kelly jams together various clauses in a weak imitation of Faulkner. In one place, near the beginning of the story, Kelly pictures the imagination of the little boy wandering from his father's bed to the various associations it suggests. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this excursion, except that Kelly has put it all into one very long, half-page sentence. Faulkner has made this technique work; Kelly, however, is not yet up to such a sophisticated maneuver, and the sentence is almost a total loss, producing a senseless jumble--if indeed it is read...
...rebuff the Soviet challenge to Hammarskjold's Congo policy, Wadsworth proposed a forthright resolution that would bar any state from sending military supplies into the Congo except through the U.N. Toward 1 o'clock one morning last week, a modified version of Wadsworth's resolution, presented by Ceylon and Tunisia, was put to the vote. Stubbornly calling for outright repudiation of Hammarskjold's acts, Zorin cast Russia's 90th veto in the Security Council. Wadsworth immediately called for an emergency General Assembly meeting under the "Uniting for Peace" rule, which permits the Assembly to take...
...Prince Boun, "whose patriotism is well known," to desist from his "initiative." Then he went off to visit the King Savang Vatthana. But even as he spoke, someone blew up the waterworks in Vientiane. Souvanna sadly ordered all of Prince Boun's relatives rounded up for questioning-all except the prince's brother Boun Orm, who is Souvanna's own Deputy Minister for Security...
...Except for a few excursions into Brussels, he mostly spent his life in the seaport of Ostend, where he was born in 1860. His father, raised in England and Belgium, and Belgian mother indulged him shamelessly. He lasted exactly two years in school, lived in a world of fairy tales, nightmares, the fascinating clutter of his parents' curio shop and an attic that was "full of horrible spiders, shells, old clothing the color of rust and blood, red and white corals, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen...
...Music of Time? It may confidently be predicted that deaths in the cast of characters will be more frequent. They are getting no younger, and besides, they cannot all come through the war with a whole skin. Will we learn anything about Nick's marriage to Isobel Tolland except that she had a miscarriage? How will "Chips" Lovell get on with Priscilla Tolland? The addicted reader can hardly wait. Meanwhile it would seem to be a safe bet that Narrator Nick Jenkins will be commissioned, like Author Powell, in a posh regiment (Powell was an officer, first...