Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Patrol. Anderson's hero is one of those perfectionist noncoms who make the difference between a bunch of men and an outfit. Sergeant Stanley need not have volunteered for what turned out to be his last patrol; he was about to be rotated home, and he had proved himself more than once to be the bravest and most effective noncom in the company. To get through the surrounding Chinese in broad daylight, ford a river, get in touch with the Dutch and then return was a job no man in his right senses would...
...times, fall from the swing-boats, or grow dizzy and faint as we ride the galloping, scarlet and gold clad roundabout horses, or fail to win a thing at any of the booths . . ." The booth marked "Modern English Theatre," O'Casey seems to believe, is rigged by a bunch of gyp-artists. First off, there are the critics, "death-or-drivel boys gunning with their gab from their pillboxes . . . those who take a step forward to enthrone imagination in the theatre and make it more of a temple and less of a den of thieves." Actors are bad actors...
Middleditch's own orbit ranges from vigorous, sweeping outdoor scenes that left one observer feeling that a ripening wheat field "might start rippling before your eyes" to harshly lighted, strong-colored still lifes depicting such mundane subjects as a bucket on a stool and a bunch of sunflowers (see cut). Says he: "The point about us is that we paint what we see around us. But we try to give it a new vision." The British Arts Council is so impressed by the New Realists' new vision that it is making the Kitchen Sink School Britain...
...Have Another 20 Years of Treason" and "Stevenson Clicks in '56," was waiting to welcome him. Smiling and confident, Stevenson stepped off the plane, kissed a baby and was photographed while the crowd, prompted by a photographer, waved a welcome. Grinned Stevenson: "They're a well-trained bunch...
...idea continues to fascinate me that some anonymous wag designated it "Operation Banana" because it brought together the whole bunch...