Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest representative of the new thing-the de-Sade-but-true school of literature-it owes something to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, except that Capote is a far better writer than Emlyn Williams, the Welsh actor and dramatist (Night Must Fall, The Corn Is Green). Williams enters the lucrative literary creep-stakes, dragging behind him two human monsters and three well-mutilated corpses. He is writing about the "Moors murders," a gruesome three-act melodrama of cold-bloodletting that captivated British headline readers from Nov. 23, 1963, when the first murder occurred, until long after...
...novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell Wright. It is salutary to note that the first English translation of Proust's Swanris Way did not make the scene...
...results were revolutionary. When the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt's sun-drenched canvas, Strayed Sheep, was displayed in Paris in 1855, French Critic Theophile Gautier wrote: "In the whole salon, there is perhaps no painting that disturbs one's vision as much as this one." Carrying Corn, a harvest scene of almost hallucinatory brightness, was painted out of doors by another Pre-Raphaelite, Ford Madox Brown, in 1854, and the diary he kept reads not a little like Van Gogh's. "Intensely miserable," Brown noted at one point. "Very hard up, and a little...
...water systems, hospitals and other public buildings, and investment (including U.S. and West German bonds). Saudi Arabia, which had hardly any schools ten years ago, is now building 300 a year. Argentina owes its status as the only South American country with a 1967 payments surplus to good corn and meat prices on world markets plus pruning of its government deficit and an economic stabilization plan that has lured large amounts of foreign investment. U.S. war purchases and spending by U.S. visitors have helped to create big surpluses for South Viet Nam, Thailand and Taiwan. South Korea...
Jersey has a lot of big company on the international scene, including such other U.S. firms as G.M., Ford, Chrysler, General Electric, IBM, ITT, Union Carbide, Du Pont, 3M, Kodak, Texaco, UniRoyal, Mobil, Boeing, Pfizer, Olin Mathieson and Corn Products Co. Together, they are rocking the world. Their globalization is an inevitable showdown between modern technology and old-style nationalism. Technology is an odds-on favorite...