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Sprawling over 661 acres in the foothills of the Berkshires, the campus is certainly inviting. The town supported by the college, South Hadley, is quaint, and largely inhabited by at least fourth generation New Englanders. Mount Holyoke is not plagued by friction between itself and the community; in fact, it allows the townspeople to use the library, swimming pool, and observatory. Said one local youngster about the college, "It keeps us in trouble"; and one middle-aged citizen commented, "The girls make lovely scenery; they're 1300 more good reasons to live in town...
They are all reasonablby faithful to the book, and speak in Hemingway's quaint manner, phrasing the English words in Spanish word order. In the book the effect produced is soft, but on the screen it seems artificial The "these" and "thous" of the book are mercifully deleted...
Henley soon lost the glamour of regatta week. The grandstands disappeared, traffic flow through the quaint town square returned to normal. But to eight Crimson rowers, their coxswain, their coach, and to their thousands of fans, this little village would always be a symbol of a magnificent effort.The lightweight eight in the Thames lock...
...Morris believed that "authority" was important. And he had premonitions about "style," and "character development" and intricate word relationships. But Morris liked to believe he was a 3-D thinker, and there were other dimensions. He persisted in the quaint notion that a writer should say something, that exercises and elaborate form and consistent technique were the tuxedo; there was the matter of filling the clothes up with something...
...Song-and-Dance Man Sammy Davis Jr. stood briefly in the law's firm grasp. Collared by U.S. Customs agents, Sammy was frisked to his skivvies, found toting a .22-cal. pistol. Explained he: "I'm an honorary deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County." Unimpressed by the quaint mores of the county, which allows its more than 1500 honorary deputy lawmen-many of them Hollywood types who couldn't outdraw their great-aunts-to bear arms at will, the agents turned Sheriff Sam over to local police, who double-checked, decided he could...