Word: default
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cozzens' favorite writer is Swift. Among moderns, he prefers Maugham, Huxley and the early Waugh-all of which suggests that he is an ironist in default of being a satirist, possibly for lack of humor or savagery. Like any good storyteller, James Gould Cozzens peddles no "message." Says he: "I have no thesis except that people get a very raw deal from life. To me, life is what life...
...those in Macmillan's audience who remembered the recent despairing warning of that old internationalist Gilbert Murray, in the last days of his life, that the colored races are not ready for leadership of the world but are inheriting it by default, Harold Macmillan was plainly suggesting that empire-minded Tories, to preserve the values they cherish, should become good Europeans...
Sears, after winning a pair of easy matches in the first two rounds, had to default in the third to Williams' Dave Leonard. Mills won his first round encounter in the second...
Ufford was the tournament's second seeded player behind defending champion Ben Heckscher, who was forced to default in the second round because of pre-vacation tennis practice. A former varsity squash captain, Ufford is one of the country's leading players...
...team championship, the Crimson did not fare so well, dropping out in the first round to the Philadelphia team, Cal Place lost a tight 3-2 match by one point in the fifth game, Larry Sears sprained his ankle in the first game and had to default, Charlie Hamm dropped a 3-2 match, Charlie MacVeagh bowed 3-1, and Henry Cortesi lost...