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...literature use George Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Wittaker Chambers' Witness (probably the greatest autobiography in the world)? Instead they ballyhoo the dull books of the cultural left--Grapes of Wrath, The Little Foxes, Death of a Salesman, or even the destructive barren poetry of Ezra Pound...
...told without dialog. Its static form is made up for by Chace's evocative description and understanding control of the central character. Slightly similar in theme, "Sweet Forever" by Nathaniel LaMar is more successful as a story. LaMar mixes dialogue with description to give a forceful picture of the barren life of a Southern girl and her fitful reaching for love...
...literature use George Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Wittaker Chambers' Witness (probably the greatest autobiography in the world)? Instead they ballyhoo the dull books of the cultural left--Grapes of Wrath, The Little Foxes, Death of a Salesman, or even the destructive barren poetry of Ezra Pound...
Noting the impending rout, Coach Bruce Munro put in the reserves. They held the scoring down to three goals for the second frame while the Engineers got their lone tally at 11:53. The third period was also rather barren of scoring, as Waring got two more goals on assists by Ed Curtis and Aiello. In the fourth frame, Munro again called on his veterans, giving them still more game experience, as they hit for the final six counters...
There was no fanfare, no official greeting, nothing except a barren field and a television film truck waiting for James B. Conant, U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, when he arrived back in the United States two weeks ago. As a result, Harvard's retiring president became a hitch-hiker...