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...seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some unconvincing, garrulous pre-fight speeches by the matador). Add to this a number of much mouthed moralizations on the art and significance of bullfighting and you have a long story which can easily be skipped...
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...county agent's extremely valuable services to the farmer. If we are going on the theory that a service department of the Government should be operated for profit, then the farmer should be handsomely billed for the county agent's services, and a good stiff admission charge should be placed on all national parks and forests...
Through it all, Marylebone's men kept a stiff upper lip-and kept on losing...
Although members of both parties support the longer term, the present Republican-sponsored proposal is likely to face stiff opposition from the Democratic majority in the House. The bill provides that the first four year term should begin in 1958, an off-year; Democrats claim that the gubernatorial and presidential races should be simultaneous to ensure the largest possible turn-out at the polls. The Republicans, on the other hand, support the off-year proposal because they claim that vital state issues have to take a back seat during presidential campaigns...