Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT, by Anthony Powell. The fifth installment of The Music of Time, in which Britain's most delicate and coruscating social Geiger counter moves through the class shambles of the late...
...making special machinery, and by World War II was the biggest such manufacturer on the West Coast. Young Lawrence had learned metalworking on vacations in his father's shop, had rushed through the University of Southern California, the California bar exams and Harvard Business School by the time he was 22. In 1946 he cut loose from the family circle to buy a war-surplus aluminum-extrusion plant in Torrance, Calif. He soon persuaded the rest of the family to go along, and the Harvey Machine Co.'s equipment was sold at public auction to finance refurbishing...
...KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, by Harper Lee. The little-girl heroine is only five when the book begins, only nine when it ends, but in that time she learns a lot about life in her Southern town and about life's continuing confrontation of good and evil. A fine first novel...
...said Rabbit, in a different sort of voice this time...
...said a voice; and then added, "You needn't shout so loud, I heard you quite well the first time...