Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...order to maintain reader interest, Amory uses his imagination to make Copper City a fascinating place. It seems the town is built on the side of a mountain. Everyone lives on different levels of one street which winds up the mountain, and all the buildings slip down the mountainside a few feet every year. (The Episcopal Church has just crossed the road in its descent.) The colorful stories Mitch tells about this town and a fabulous group of Western characters are always interesting...
Most of the 34,500,000 registered voters in Great Britain will today choose 625 members of Parliament from 1,864 assorted candidates. Each voter will make one mark on a paper ballot which lists names but no party affiliations, and drop that ballot into a sealed box. The man he chooses may live and vote in another constituency, but will certainly not be a lord, a member of the clergy, an employe of the government, a lunatic, an alien, or a government contractor...
...This representative to the Committee should make a brief report to the Council following each Committee meeting, and should regularly report back to the Committee as to Council criticism and recommendations...
...House representative to the Council should hold weekly office hours, and might well make use of a suggestion box to sound out directly the members of the House on both Council and House Committee matters. (Suggestions should of course be signed...
...Jung's and Freud's theories of the subconscious had pretty well destroyed the rational structure of the world and opened the way for the literary experimenters to take an inordinate interest in dreams and innovations in the use of language. Much of the description of dreams does not make very good sense, as the word is customarily used. But this is in line with the attitude "The writer expresses, he does not communicate." This idea, which infuriated some critics, was expounded by "transition" in a manifesto called "The Revolution of the Word." The manifesto closed with the statement...