Word: correspondence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably the finest story of the nine is "For Esme with Love and Squalor," in which Salinger best merges humor with tragedy. It tells of a soldier in England, who agrees to correspond with a small British girl, and finds himself opening her first letter in Germany, months later, while he is in a state of shell shock...
Originally filmed in Italian, the United States releasers tried to fit English into the actor's mouths, and were, as usual, unsuccessful. Often the sound track blares on when actors' lips, close, and is silent as they form words. And, since the highly cultured voices do not correspond with some of the more earthy characters, subtitles would have been much better...
Scandal v. Scorn. Ichiro Ishikawa's wife Kimiko. who went proudly forth to cast her ballot as one of Japan's newly enfranchised women, reported these scandalous goings-on to her family. They did not correspond to what May Moon had learned in her civics books. So May Moon wrote an indignant letter to Asahi Shimbun, Japan's most influential newspaper. Government investigators moved into Ueno...
...Gulf-plus price, even though it is cheaper to produce than U.S. oil. Last year U.S. Navy vessels refueling in Mediterranean ports had the same complaint. Last week Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Willard L. Thorp told a congressional committee that world oil prices are fixed to correspond to the basing point system of U.S. prices...
Three different photographs of a specimen are taken on film sensitive to the ultraviolet end of the light spectrum. These three exposures are made at three different wavelengths which correspond to the fundamental red, yellow, and blue of ordinary light. In the few seconds after exposure the instrument develops the films, dries them, and projects them through color filters onto a viewing screen...