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...Dorset, as a village model for postwar reconstruction. In Milton Abbas, the church faces the almshouse at the center of the hamlet, the vicarage faces the brewery at one end, the school opposes the hospital at the other; all snugly lined on a sloping road in a wooded cleft...
...that the cleft hot wear the A-L's and the psychologists is firmly established (this column should be and be an inflammatory wedge by the time the psych lads have laboriously spelled their way down this far), let us start stumping for the 1st Platoon softball team, an A-L gang (naturally), and as solid a gang of ten-thumbed ball hawks as ever left three men on base in five consecutive scoreless innings...
...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...
...immediate danger had passed. Mustn't let that sort of thing happen again--bad for morale. The friend that had suggested this to him had always been trustworthy on the subject of courses before. No human being could possibly pronounce the required sounds without a bad case of cleft palate, much less make sense of the designs Russians scribbled on paper and tried to pass off as an alphabet. Now a slim fellow over in another corner, with a thin, nervous voice, was speaking very fast--punctuating his talk with short, indrawn laughs. Then everyone laughed again. This time...
...except for the cleft-palate title) equally expert historical novel by the author of last year's best-selling The Harp and the Blade Hero Ingram Applegarth, an Elizabethan gentleman-adventurer, is 21, short, not good-looking, full of adolescent illusions about himself, intelligent and endearing. The brisk plot recounts his efforts to restore to beautiful Marian Barking her stolen estates. Author Myers' women are somewhat featureless, his male characters agreeably vital-in particular, one Tom the Crowder, a malefactor with more entertainment value than Ulysses' sirens, and much less conscience. Author Myers' period painting...