Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of parochial education, the merits of which may be freely granted, but one of the results of which may well be the destruction of the public school system . . . Parents whose loyalty to their church leads them to send their children to parochial schools are not on that account freed from the obligation to support the public schools...
...decade's most celebrated banger of mystical ashcans has written a fictional account of his childhood, and surprisingly, while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...
Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year...
...precisely this failure to take a stand, however, that turns Easy Living into a trite account of the nocturnal habits of a seedy set of people. In the absence of any moral clarity, either in defense of or opposition to this new life, we are left with a gutless congregation of men and women--shallow, mechanical, colorless--who do absurd things and utter ridculous statements but who never seem to be aware of their own humanity...
Nothing I have read in recent months has given me so much satisfaction as did the account in your April 20 issue...