Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While waiting for a break in the weather, as he puts it, Davies-played with uncluttered perception by Donald Pleasence-burrows into the refuge offered by a former mental patient (Robert Shaw), the elder of two misfit brothers. Shaw collects things-bales of newspapers, a disconnected faucet, a kitchen sink, a bud vase full of screws-and he speaks and moves with the stony detachment of a man who will never again disturb the balance of his uneasy truce with life. His goal is to build a workshed out back: "Then I'll be able...
Also less pretentious, less purple, and more palpable than the Advocate median is "Set Theory," by Donald Bloch, a mature and controlled observation of a son returned from school to the familiar, petty bitchinesses of his parents. Bloch infuses the trivial "stuff of life" that makes up his story with an unusual intensity. Yet he does not languish turgidly over details, a favorite indulgence of Porter and Mary Seager, forcing the reader to rush his eyes downward, hungry for a little less talk and more action...
...didn't realize until I read your cover story [Jan. 10] that men like R. Buckminster Fuller still existed. What a refreshing breeze and delightful story. MRS. DONALD HUDSON New York City
...straight commercial venture, the sale was treated as if it had no cold war overtones. Leyland had sold hundreds of buses to Cuba before Castro, and was now only resuming relations with an old customer. "I am sorry the U.S. disapproves," said Leyland's Managing Director Donald Stokes, "but this is an English company doing a deal with Cuba. I have no knowledge of having to go to America for permission to sell buses." Besides, if the U.S. expected to sell $300 million worth of wheat to Soviet Russia, it was in no position to complain about...
Since the course falls in two examination groups, students have in past years been allowed to vote for one of two test dates, Donald R. Brown, assistant professor of Government and head section man in the course, explained...