Word: charleye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trappings of welcome were a little wild, the tone was as warm as the friendly, familiar "Hi, Charley!" that sounded so often from the crowded curbside. All week, whether it was on Broadway or San Francisco's Market Street or New Orleans' Canal Street, the U.S.'s admiration was extravagant and obvious, and in its warmth, austere Charles de Gaulle noticeably thawed...
...Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Gary. With his customary warmth and humor, the author in this early novel tells about a little devil of a slum boy evacuated to an English village during the blitz...
...Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Cary. An early (1940) Cary about an adolescent slum runner evacuated to the English countryside during the blitz, sympathetically written to show that "every ordinary child is by nature a delinquent...
...Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Gary. An early (1940) Gary novel about an adolescent slum runner evacuated to the English countryside during the blitz, wryly and sympathetically written to show that "every ordinary child is by nature a delinquent...
...Charley organizes a gang of underaged cat burglars and the children blunder from success to pointless success, stealing trinkets for the excitement of it and giving them away. It is only after Charley is caught that Gary's book makes a descent into sentiment, coming closer to Dickens than to Evelyn Waugh, who also told (in his hilarious Put Out More Flags) of brattish evacuees on the loose in the English countryside. But the sentimental flaw is minor, and the book makes its point well: adolescence is a chrysalis whose occupant can be hurt, but not helped much...