Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LETTERS FROM MADAME LA MARQUISE DE Sévigné (389 pp.)-Selecfed and translated by Violet Hammersley-Harcourt, Brace...
...SHADOW OF MY HAND, by Holger Cahill (409 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half...
...Brace and Captain Ann Luyten paced the Annex sextet with 12 and 10 points respectively as the home team led from the opening whistle.. While the crimson-clad winners scored five baskets in the opening period, they held their yellow-tunicked antagonists to one and led 10 to 2 at the quarter...
...included a tall stranger in a top hat who paid bedside calls on unsuspecting parlor maids, an aged family retainer long since dead, a lurking prowler who went without a hat and without a head as well, a phantom coach that rolled wildly through the front yard behind a brace of phantom horses. Also in the ghostly cast: a wistfully mourning lady variously identified as 1) Arabella Waldegrave, daughter of a 17th century local lord, 2) an English nun whose weakness for a monk in a monastery, said to have occupied the rectory site, had led to her being sealed...
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING (248 pp.)-George Orwell-Harcourf, Brace...