Word: chequers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settled too often for the topical, at least the topics were compelling: racial prejudice (The Chequer Board); war's massacre of the innocents (Pied Piper)] the apocalypse of nuclear global suicide (On the Beach). At times Shute was notably prescient. In Ordeal (March 1939) he conjured up the spectacle of a bomb-battered England. Long before the Comet crashes, he visualized aircraft exploding from metal fatigue (No Highway). In an age of equivocal values, Shute took an authoritative, old-fashioned moral stance. His men were manly. His women were womanly and virtuous. Sex was linked to marriage; evil, when...