Word: contrivedness
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Douglas might well have gone on to become one of the visionary young dreamers of the New Deal brain trust. But he was no more willing to accept the neatly contrived panaceas of the early New Deal than the heady optimism of the '20s. He still had some thinking...
This Gothic tale is artificially tensed by Author Brooke with misleading clues (the point of the confrontation at the Druids' stones is never made clear) and contrived devices of suspense. The Scapegoat still has the ugly reality of a fatal disease.
The new ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and...
Harvard sports afielendos are, evidently, supposed to be at least mildly interested in this book because Richard T. Button '52--men's World, men's Olympic, men's European, men's North American, and national men's figure skating champion has been included. His story is told in one of...
Kilty's second contribution is a story called "A Moral Tale" about a four-star altar boy who turns out to be a pretty nasty little fellow after all. Though written with some good touches--such as a scene in which the saints in the church "watch" the boy steal...