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...refrigerator, ice cream and soda pop in the refrigerator, and a box of cookies on the kitchen table. It's understandable that our place is a favorite hangout for the neighborhood kids. And there are lots of them. Sometimes they come in platoons. It isn't uncommon to see ten of them sprawled out in front of the television set watching six-shooters roar as badmen bite the dust. This is especially true on Saturday mornings...
...story of the Army of the Potomac that he began with Mr. Lincoln's Army and continued with Glory Road. Once again, without stinting the strategies of the generals, he digs into regimental histories and private diaries to create a lively sense of the common soldier performing his uncommon chore of fighting and dying...
...remedies. I have heard that most of the faculty and alumni are right now opposed to the proposals, which shows the eminent good sense of Yale. But to stop something like this entirely, what with the president and a hand-picked committee behind it, would require a concerted opposition uncommon in academic circles. Eventually some form of it will probably go through. Fortunately, however, no gadget can stand in the way of a man determined to teach...
Dear me, how clever of Mr. McCord to turn out such "Lost" Positives as licit, iterate, fulgent and fangled ... All of them are in my Webster, and most of them not uncommon in literate circles. [Let] Harvard-man McCord...heed this monition...
Such scenes, written in a bare, vigorously perceptive prose, infuse The Hive with uncommon power. It is too bad that Novelist Cela's method is self-defeating. He spreads himself too thinly over too many characters, and his vignettes, taken together, lack the sharpness that they have separately. But many a lesser, more successful novelist would give his best typing finger to be able to evoke the bitterness, insight and compassion that Novelist Cela packs into brief scenes that plunge straight at the heart...