Word: despoil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kindly ones were the harbingers of all the gross Furies of history that were to despoil two generations of British youth. This, the sixth in Anthony Powell's great series of novels, called The Music of Time, carries Narrator Nicholas Jenkins back to the outbreak of World War I and forward to the beginnings of World...
...Lucky Jim's brattish humor, and Author Amis remains a shrewd, accurate observer of what sociologists call courtship patterns. He also has a message of sorts. After a particularly hectic session, Patrick tells Jenny bitterly that there are two kinds of men these days, the sort who despoil maidens as often as possible and the sort who have no desire to do so. The kind who wanted to but waited, he says, died...