Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BROTHERS-Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck-John...
Authoress Buck's magnum opus is not her own. She herself does not know who the author was, says it might have been Shih Nai-an but thinks it more likely that this massive (1,279-page) medieval novel, like the cathedrals of France, the epics of Homer, was the work of many forgotten hands. First written down some six centuries ago, it probably had wide if fragmentary currency 200 years before that. Says Translator Buck: "All Men Are Brothers is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made...
Translator Buck gives good advice when she says: "When you read this book forget it as a book. ... Do not try to remember the names of any of the people as they appear, or the names of the places they frequent. . . . When you have finished the book to its triumphant end. you will find that, without your knowing it, there will remain in your mind out of the hundreds of people who have passed before your eyes, certain unforgettable men and women, whose lives you have lived with them, across the seas and centuries." Plot in the Western sense there...
...this march with a 38-yard dash. Wells kicked the point after. Coach Casey sent in the B outfit and there was a noticeable let-down in the calibre of play but before the end of the session the Varsity had scored again, this time on a short buck by Deeb Peter...
...photograph illustrating the article is of a three-point buck. To the best of the writer's knowledge it is common practice throughout the U. S. and Canada to rate a deer by one horn only and by the horn with the least number of points, if there be any difference...