Word: caveness
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...story is irresistibly alive, initially nostalgic, ultimately pitiable. Too raw to be first-rate social history, it never really becomes the true-life epistolary novel which Editor Myers claims. The Joneses wrote of farming and money, hurricanes and family visits, a trip to Niagara and Mammoth Cave, a cousin dead of yellow fever, an uncle disgraced by drink and a woman, a sermon enjoyed, a length of calico purchased. They wrote also about their slaves-referring to them usually, with unsettling reverberations today, as "the people...
...feeble attempt to become godlike, to master the world around him. It is, in short, magic, the earliest of man's religious responses. The world's oldest art works, the primitive animal paintings in the cave at Lascaux in southwestern France, for example, were Stone Age man's magical invocation of success in the hunt. The astrology so many millions follow today is a direct legacy from the astronomer priests of Babylonia. Even when Christianity spread through Europe, many in the countryside kept their rustic rites along with the new religion. ("Pagan" stems from the Latin paganus meaning "country dweller...
From Hanoi, Lewis wrote on the familiar themes of North Vietnamese determination not to cave in under the accelerated bombing and the government's willingness to settle for less than a totally Communist regime in Saigon. He reported North Viet Nam's claim that it is clearing mines from the Haiphong harbor entrance and restoring partial ship traffic in the port (the White House not only denied it, but accused the Times of "being a conduit of enemy propaganda"). Conversations in Hanoi led Lewis to write that the North Vietnamese feel Americans misunderstand them, a fact that explains...
...down delinquents, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has assigned 58 new sleuths, but some culprits may be hard to find. When the Bank of America prodded one ex-student about laggardly payments, all it got in reply was a photo of him huddled naked in some northern cave...
...Breguet has put together a company, retaining more than half of the stock himself, that has revenues of $16 million and profits of $2.5 million. His chief product is a five-bedroom brick and tile-roof house, containing wall-to-wall carpets, a fully equipped kitchen and a wine cave. Price, including a quarter-acre lot: $50,000. Late last year Breguet completed a 350-house development. At present he has three subdivisions under construction and another three on the planning boards, totaling 2,050 homes...