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Motiveless malignancy, as represented by Bernard, surely exists in the world. Old age is no guarantee of wisdom or largeness of spirit. But somewhere before a surprise ending with more deaths than Act V of Hamlet, it becomes evident that Author Amis is enjoying his caricatured geriatricks in some way that might be appropriate to Goneril and Regan in King Lear but is simply hateful in Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Graham Greene once wrote that when trying to refine the pangs and foibles of men and women into fiction, a novelist must have a sliver of ice in his heart...
...Token. Raspberry's questioning turn of mind came from his parents, both schoolteachers in the northeastern Mississippi hamlet of Okolona. After graduating from the local black high school, he entered Indiana Central College in Indianapolis and helped support himself by reporting for a local black weekly. A stint in the Army brought him to Washington, where he got a job as a teletypist for the Post. Some months later a sympathetic editor recognized Raspberry's potential as a reporter. He spent four years on civil rights stories. In 1966 he got a chance as a columnist...
...township has no college, but it does incorporate a tiny hamlet called Lithopolis, and that is all it needs. The place is the home of the Wagnalls Memorial, a small foundation that hands out scholarships to all comers-and wishes, in fact, that more would come...
Newellton was a town of 800 people in the old and rural, northeastern part of Louisiana. Yet even as it was easy to preceive his birth-place as a Southern hamlet undisturbed by the the 20th century, Brimmer recognized throughout his recollections a higher, economic order that permeated even the occupations of his boyhood...
...death of Shirali Muslimov last year at the reported age of 168 was a blow to the village of Barzavu, in the Soviet Caucasus. It ended the role of the mountain hamlet not only as a tourist attraction but also as a gerontological mecca. For decades Soviet and Western scientists had made the pilgrimage to Barzavu to auscultate stouthearted Muslimov and inquire about his diet, life-style and sexual habits. But his death still left thousands of alleged supercentenarians in the U.S.S.R. vying for the attention of gerontologists...