Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butterworth would have so clumsily intervened in the Canadian political situation. And he would hardly have used the awkward phrasing of the letter ("I was delighted with the timing, which I considered perfect, announcing the stand taken by your party"), or addressed his friend Mike Pearson with the formal "Dear Mr. Pearson...
...brass lungs and a tin ear. Who Lost an American? sounds like a bellowing recitative by a carnival barker who stops at nothing but to laugh at his own jokes. It takes Algren to foreign parts like New York, Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Crete, and back, of course, to dear old untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American traveler since the innocents went abroad in Mark Twain's generation. The book is dedicated to Simone de Beauvoir...
...Dear President Pusey...
Originality comes especially dear in retelling wars that are neither small nor remote enough to make individual actions seem romantic. Ghastly statistics simply smother any kind of gaudy derring-do. For a battle narrative set within the slaughter of thirty million human beings, the courage and suffering of ordinary people are the only legitimate themes...
...address nor signature, it said, "You bloody white Kaffir, what a disgrace to the country you are . . . Your beloved black bastard isn't even good looking." He read the note, then handed it to his bride. After a moment, she replied quietly: 'Tt doesn't matter, dear...