Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoped that he will, but he may not. The present, after all, is a ghost of less substance than the unmelting snows that mantle his youth. "The snow is real," he writes, imagining some long-ago blizzard, "and as I bend to it and scoop up a handful, 60 years crumble to glittering frost-dust between my fingers...
...maple and beech trees. Architect John Andrews, an Australian-born professor on the Toronto faculty, likens the setting to that of Italian hill towns, feels he has created in the building a response to the demands of site, climate (no one has to step out of doors in a blizzard to change classrooms) and educational program. Andrews' design emphasizes efficiency. His 30 science labs, which seat 20 students each ("the number that can conveniently look at a reasonably priced TV monitor"), are proving ideal for nonscience classes as well, and are in use 85% of the school...
...rival can edit the obit. Scott in reprisal busts up the formation again. Tony is shipped off to arctic survival school, where the poor twerp shaves in leftover coffee, sleeps with a nice warm sled dog and sits miserably slurping puree of blubber in the path of a polar blizzard. Scott meanwhile reclines contentedly (though temporarily) in the soft white arms of Tony's missus, who comfily explains: "I've always wanted two of everything...
Everything is grist. He writes of his wife's encounter with poison ivy or of his own desperate search for the family cat during a blizzard; he tells how to talk on the party line without revealing secrets to eavesdroppers, devotes a whole page of sensitive text and pictures to the juvenile joy of playing in a hay-filled barn. Bowman prefers to think of himself as "a sort of would-be farmer with typewriter...
...novel is a lot of fun, but it is hard to make a real hero emerge from a blizzard of custard pies; Kingsley Amis (One Fat Englishman), scored better in the U.S. Besides, not many native readers will share the conviction that American activities are inherently comic because they are un-English...