Word: wispyness
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Last week Yukio Ozaki was once more showing gratitude toward the U.S. Wispy but indomitable, he had flown the Pacific to thank Americans for their postwar aid. Brandishing a tulip-shaped ear trumpet, he told New York reporters, "If you think Japan is [now] becoming a democracy, you are mistaken...
The room may be the closest thing to a permanent home that wispy-haired little Painter Chagall will ever know. Since 1910, when he left Russia and its harrowing threat of pogroms for Paris, he had never really settled down. Haunted by his memories and searching for escape, he found...
To wispy-haired Anthony Standen, 43, the world is divided into two groups-"scientists, who practice the art of infallibility, and nonscientists, sometimes contemptuously called laymen . . ." By any standard, Anthony Standen is no layman.
Technically, the novel is weak. The loose, rambling prose does out take hold of the reader until the genuinely rich plot begins to move by itself. Lamkin falls to take advantage of the dramatic situations he has devised, and much too often he uses the hack writer's crutch of...
A hunched little man in a dark suit walked into Munro's hardware store in Edmonton last week and asked for 80 feet of seven-eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the...