Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...said, "I don't want [the book] to be a sort of amber in color-you know, Forever Amber-I want to say something pleasant about people and if I can't, I just want to leave them out. Naturally, I'll talk about my mother, who died when I was twelve. It was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn sort of thing. It has lots of other highlights: it'll take in the trial-you know, this Daisy [De Boe] trial. Well, she was my secretary and she blackmailed...
...Racetrack Background; Light Confusion -and Then Down the Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab . . . Not all stabs are bad news, though. WOR can also provide you with a hopeful stab called Things Are Looking...
...page of the novel. Yet, at the same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward...
...Reds had put a small force across the river at night. When dawn came, they were so close to the U.S. positions that Gay's gallant troopers fought them off with bayonets, rifle butts, knives, even fists and feet. The Reds seemed to have no taste for this sort of combat and retreated across the Naktong with heavy casualties, but they came back to fight again near Waegwan (called "Wigwam," "Waukeegan," or "Podunk" by G.I.s), twelve miles northwest of Taegu. Twice the G.I.s were driven from the top of Hill 303 made infamous by the war's worst...
...soon decided, has other limitations. It affects a cloud only while falling through it, and the ice motes it creates must take effect immediately or they will evaporate. Dr. Bernard Vonnegut, another of Langmuir's bright protégés, was assigned the job of finding some sort of permanent, nonvolatile particles that would hang in the air long enough for ice to form on them...