Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Man of the Year
...third man who has hit double figures in both games is the captain, Sid Davis, from Clinton, Tenn. Davis is the sparkplug of the team--running the offense from his guard post, dribbling the opposition crazy, and scoring on drives and jump shots...
...Swiss town in the 1820s; his mother is the educated daughter of a pastor, and his father is a peasant who, through great ability and energy, has become a master builder. The father is the embodiment of the century's early surge of humanism; a fearless and optimistic man who taught himself architecture, and who leads his fellow townsmen in the building of schools and the forming of dramatic societies. He dies while Henry is still young, and his widow cuts up his green military uniform to make a suit for the boy. From then on, green...
...prose, not all of it defensible. The book opens with: "Call Aubrey George Grant! The moment had come. My mouth felt suddenly dry. The Court was waiting and I knew the ordeal ahead of me was a long one. In telling the whole truth I might convict an innocent man . . ." The narrator testifies, dry mouth and all, for more than 300 pages about an oily Emir who wants more oil, and a berobed old Britisher with a patch over one eye and a theory that, by Allah, there is petroleum under a certain unpromising patch of ground. The old fellow...
...arises that Society is not what it used to be, and Amory divertingly traces this plaint all the way back to the landing of the Mayflower. That sacred vessel, reports Amory. carried a nondescript list of lower-middle-class passengers, plus a sprinkling of servants; and not a man in the lot could sign himself "Gent...