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...barren prospect," agrees the youth, summing things up nicely...
...describes love affairs frequently, but writes less well of men and women than of men alone. Events are less important to him than inward torment, and consequently his prose is rich in soliloquies and barren of drama. But within these limitations his best stories are of a very high order, and they might seem the product of genius rather than of painstaking craftsmanship if one could not see the techniques of their construction in other, slightly less successful stories in the collection. The familiar Silent Snow, Secret Snow is the prize of the lot-a brilliant evocation of a young...
...most efficient tourist center and the most knowledgeable in combining the exotic, flavorful atmosphere of the East with the well-policed comfort and orderliness of the West. The city itself, officially called Victoria, is on Hong Kong Island. But the crown colony includes some 248 other islands, mostly small, barren and uninhabited, plus Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories on the Chinese main land-altogether some 398 square miles jammed with 3,000,000 people, 99% of whom are Chinese. Hong Kong booms with banks and stockbrokers, merchants and money lenders, smugglers and illicit dealers in gold, narcotics and women...
Amusing Choice. The island selected by the British plenipotentiary, Sir Henry Pottinger, was Hong Kong (Fragrant Harbor). It was so barren and lacking in water that even the Chinese considered it uninhabitable. Pottinger's choice aroused derision in London, where "Go to Hong Kong" became a euphemistic form of cussing among fashionable ladies. And Queen Victoria wrote a friend: "Albert is so much amused at my having got the island of Hong Kong...
...West Virginia Republicans tried hard to prove that homespun Democratic Attorney General Wallace Barron had bribed a rival to withdraw from this year's primary. They also ripped into Barren's record as liquor commissioner in the scandal-strewn regime (1953-57) of Democratic Governor William Marland. It was wasted effort; in a Democratic landslide. Barron easily whipped game G.O.P. Challenger Harold Neely, who had been in politics less than three years...