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FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (1 )* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. Ourselves To Know, O'Hara (6) 4. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 5. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (3) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (9) 7. Kiss Kiss, Dahl (8) 8. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (7) 9. The Devil's Advocate, West (5) 10. Aimez-vous Brahms . . , Sagan...
...Constant Image, Davenport...
Charlestonese is not an intelligible distortion of the American language in the sense that the dialects of Boston, Brooklyn and Davenport, Iowa are. It pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses. Confronted with Charlestonese, philologists tremble...
...Constant Image, Davenport...
...Constant Image, Davenport...