Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most painful to evaluate, reached its unsatisfactory climax in the Ewing Township Decision, rendered last week by the Supreme Court. Split into a five-and-four grouping, the Court nonetheless upheld a New Jersey law which grants tax rebates to families whose children must pay bus-fare in order to reach parochial schools. These tax rebates constitute repayment to families which cannot be reached by the public bus service...
...Wayward Bus, which Steinbeck wrote in 90 days last summer in the air-conditioned Manhattan office of his publisher, is his first book since Cannery Row, his first full-length novel since The Grapes of Wrath...
Stranded Passengers. Juan Chicoy and his sharp-tongued, sluttish wife, Alice, ran a restaurant, filling station and garage at Rebel Corners. Once a day, Juan in his bus, Sweetheart, shuttled Greyhound bus passengers from one main north-south highway to another. Juan was a dark and sinewy Irish-Mexican whom his wife loved passionately and feared a little "because he was a man, and there aren't very many of them...
...breakfast was going on, a Greyhound bus driver named Louie 42 miles away had spotted among his passengers a good-looking girl who "in some subtle way smelled of sex." She had made a living stripping at stag parties for businessmen. Louie had a reputation for making time with what he called "pigs," but though he got this girl into the seat behind him he didn't make much time with her before she got off at Rebel Corners. By that time the first downpour had drenched the valley, the river was rising dangerously, and Sweetheart was ready...
...bus mires under a cliff that bears the washed-out legend, "Repent." Mildred gives herself satisfactorily to Juan in a barn and Pritchard, repulsed by Camille, reverts to the Pleistocene by outraging his wife in a cave. What the symbolism of repentance has to do with the characters is not made clear. But readers aware of Steinbeck's great reputation and considerable gifts will feel that he has cause to repent as a novelist...