Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what all agreed was the world's finest rum ($3.75 a gallon in town). But whether at the American Club, the fashionable Centre d'Art, the Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks...
Dahl's latest is full of crudely, shrewdly drawn glimpses of Back Bay folk and subway riders, the people who feed the Boston Common pigeons and the suburban firemen who are forever rescuing treed cats. Some of the cartoons are local jokelets which only Bostonians are apt to appreciate. At the book's end is one of Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank...
...impression left with the reader is of an ultimate canceling out of whatever Koestler sets up, either as argument or character prop. Viewing the weak fictional fagade, neutral readers as well as pro-and anti-Zionists are apt to find themselves wishing that the job had been done as straight journalism...
...teams are its chief glories. The main campus, on St. Nicholas Heights in upper Manhattan, has six be-gargoyled Gothic buildings; but its downtown branch at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue looks like any big Manhattan office building. Students who don't foregather at the nearby Automat are apt to be found across the street at the George Washington Hotel, which before the war always kept a ten-pound cheese handy for them at the bar. This year City College added a third "campus," for veterans only: a former public-school building on West 50th Street...
...streamlined washing machines--a kind that takes clothes soiled and dry in one lump and, for a dime in a slot, turns them out damp and clean half an hour later, with no personal attention in between--are another Brunswick selling point to a student's wife, who is apt to have an 8 hour-a-day job in Boston or Cambridge...