Word: carsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TRAVELS: NEAR AND FAR OUT, by Anthony Carson. An engaging, if impractical, travel book by the most freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking tourist guide ever to enter the trade...
TRAVELS: NEAR AND FAR OUT, by Anthony Carson. An engaging, if impractical, travel book by the most freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking tourist guide ever to enter the trade...
...August civil rights march on Washington, including two Roman Catholic archbishops, at least ten Episcopal bishops, about 50 rabbis. So far in 1963, more than 200 clergymen have been arrested for taking part in picket lines and demonstrations, including the nation's No. 1 Presbyterian, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, in Maryland...
...Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing. The result is the most engaging of travel books. It is mercifully free from useful information, unless the term can be held to include such items as: that sheep will follow you into bars if you blow certain notes on a Spanish bagpipe; that you get more consideration from European Express officials by pretending to be responsible for 100 unwell divinity students than by being actually in charge of one healthy priest; that conductors of two-price tours of Europe are expected to spend their time with the first-class guided...
...widely broadened mind and deals in negotiable facts and research-tested opinions about gypsies, Basques, Catalans and others among whom he has traveled. One who can write pleasantly of a Scottish Sabbath has to be a pleasant man; Reid is all that, and a much more reliable one than Carson. Unhappily, he gives the impression that however far he traveled, he always had a return ticket tucked into an inside pocket. There is only one place where the paths of these men might possibly have crossed. In Gibraltar, Carson was arrested on suspicion of smuggling dope; Reid interviewed the mayor...