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...play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks the fond lake-eyed cows as dusk showers slowly down over byre, sea, and town...
...defense of McCarthyism, the material presented in McCarthy and his Enemies might be described by a phrase which the authors are fond of using. On the surface, the facts seem to make a "good prima facie case." The evidence which they present, however, is limited mostly to McCarthy's earlier bouts with the Tydings Committee. An examination of other investigations and charges could have placed the Senator's record in more accurate perspective...
John Crane, manager of the East Asiatic Timber and Mining Co., does not feel as if he is carrying the white man's burden. He is fond of the indolent Siamese town of Luang Nakon, where he makes his headquarters. He likes the routine of his work and the evening drinks at the run-down sahibs' club. He enjoys his friendship with the only non-white member of the club, Major Chai Wut, the police chief. But in 1953, John Crane faces upheaval, knows it and resents it. "Why are they telling us to go?" he asks Major...
...spent his life waisting his talons in an advertising agency ("That's the whey he was"). He has a Jewish mother-in-law who speaks with "an ageless bit of Joycey sholem asholem humorwit" - except when she takes out her teeth and talk." becomes Inky "all is fond mp-mp of when the she country, [tries] to and believes that a man should be individualistic, even at the risk of being dubbed a "darestedly commonuts anniekist...
...Harvard prize book, to be given to about 600 of the country's top juniors in prep and high schools. Bentinck-Smith denies any literary pretentions, however. He has tried creative writing and poetry, but "I don't think my mind works that way. I've always been very fond of editing...