Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evident throughout Days and Nights. With its terse, ungarnished lines, its relatively simple, folkish characters, and its love story, evolving in the midst of battle, this novel is especially reminiscent of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Yet, beneath the Hemingwayesque prose, characters, and situation, there runs a strong nationalistic strain which lends Days and Nights its own, special power and gives it a quality very different from that of the Hemingway novel...
...editorial board, for example, asks only that you write three somethings a week, whish is not, you may be sure, much of a strain. To quote Cardinal Richelieu (a sort of 17th Century F.A. Lindermann): "Even the siege of La Rochelle was not much of a strain." In the greater days of Crimson history, when men were men and candidates indescribable, editors demanded two editorials each night. We are milksops now, perhaps, but we have become human beings...
...closeup, some customers experience a disturbing sensation, as if their eyes, in order to focus, were being forced to cross. As the cutter fades one image from the screen and fades another in, the eyes instinctively attempt to focus on the departing and the arriving images, and the strain sometimes approaches the threshold of pain. On the whole, the experience is entertaining, and probably will not hurt anybody who has not had to go through it since 1955. In any case, it is always possible, if the eyes protest too much, to slip off the goggles and see two pictures...
...spokesman for Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director of the Selective Service System, said that the Corps would "put no strain" on the manpower pool. He said that Hershey had looked into the plan and observed that even 10,000 men would hardly cut into the number drafted each year...
...hand, were almost all Protestants; many had achieved professional success. Said Jacobson: "They came at a time when success in their chosen work highlighted a sense of frustration and block in their emotional capacity for dealing with courtship and marriage." Women over 30 also had a common motive: marital strain. "Correction of a longstanding sense of nasal deformity," said Jacobson, "is felt by these patients as a necessary preliminary to coping with the threat of depression evoked by their interpersonal difficulties...