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...Stones of Summer is to be the first of a much larger oeuvre it must have a profound influence on Dow Mossman's vision of life, because it creates an awareness of this world rarely found in a first novel. That its vision is poetic and lengthy does not distract from its final effect, its suggestiveness uncovers the emotions, leaving them exposed to a situation that only lengthy development can make clear...
...author tells of Magog's rise to wealth and prestige. In 1948 Magog, as a specialist in foreign affairs, pays for his sack time with a fierce Israeli girl by secretly shipping arms to the Haganah. He justifies his pleasure by rationalizing that an independent Israel will distract the Arabs from uniting to take over British oil interests. Later, he swells in equity and power as director of postwar real estate development. Outwardly the idealistic public servant, inwardly the unscrupulous hypocrite, Magog exemplifies Sinclair's epigram that "if politics was the art of the possible, then principles were...
Exams may distract the majority of the Crimson wrestlers. Having wrestled four times during reading period, several starters have Lee's permission to tackle Widener and Lamont this evening...
Magic Lantern. It was in a tiny room across the hall that the author spent his boyhood holidays. "Far from my mother and grandmother, my bedroom became the fixed point on which my melancholy and anxious thoughts were centered. Someone had had the happy idea of giving me, to distract me on evenings when I seemed abnormally wretched, a magic lantern ... it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window." The lantern is still there. So is the scrubby garden behind...
...added that the quiet is doing more harm to Nixon. "Nixon couldn't have been elected without white fear of blacks. He rode the law-and-order issue into office. Now there are no niggers to distract ignorant white folk from seeing that the economy is falling apart and that...