Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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their men alike." Partly because this prophecy bears a shadow-image likeness to today's world, the original, repetitious, two-volume book, skillfully pared to a highly readable single volume, has just been reissued. Often damned but still cited (the very title can turn a whole evening into disputation ), it...
Biff Bundie pulled up short in shocked disbelief. "He is courting death to escape me. In fact, he's scooted past the most formidable armada the Cambridge roads can muster. I'll be damned." The light changed, and the policeman continued warily.
Plied with Whisky. The Hard Life's crazy old man is Mr. Collopy, a sixtyish sack of Biblical malapropisms whose ruling passion is a campaign to get the Dublin City Corporation to install public rest rooms for women. The book's narrator-a boy named Finnbar- and his...
Connor's stand has only added steam to the students' drive. Promised one Negro leader last week: "We can keep it up as long as the white people." Under the students' energetic leadership, Birmingham's Negroes were, for the first time, becoming a community. And some...
Lincoln's Epic. Northerners filled their writings with Calvinist fervor, certain that God had willed them to stamp out slavery. "This vision of Judgment," writes Wilson, "was the myth of the North." Though not at first an abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln made this "myth" stick by the power of his...