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Word: dickensy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...20th Century. Always a ready hand with the Gentle Soul beset by the Stupid Community (notably in If Winter Comes), he plays it now in the Rev. Gordon Brecque, his patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily, and the younger daughter makes bad use of a roadhouse, is killed in an auto wreck. But the focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Low Ceiling | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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