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...thirds of this flow (13 mm.) was normal for youths and young men from 16 to 29. The doctors squeezed out two more drops of information: from ages 30 to 60, men & women seem to have about the same capacity for tears; beyond 60, women seem to be slightly drier-eyed than...
...very good it is," exclaimed Horizon Editor Cyril Connolly, "how brilliant and true and funny and beautifully written and intelligently thought and felt." Less susceptible readers are likely to emerge from The Oasis with drier emotions. Author McCarthy's wit sparkles very nicely as long as she is standing the false gods of contemporary intellectualism on their heads and displaying her theory-ridden victims against a backdrop composed of the simple facts of life. Nonetheless, most of The Oasis has just the same fatal flaw as the Utopia it describes-it is built entirely of disembodied ideas and peopled...
...somehow Harry Truman sounded a little like a man who was damned if he was going to come down with the flu, even though he already had the sniffles. This week, in the longer, drier sentences of his midyear economic report to Congress, the President frankly admitted that there were some reasons for feeling bearish...
Objections, he said, were mainly that (1) "if it's to be done, it should be done for everyone-not just the Houses". (2) architectural arrangements of some of the House basements make it impossible to accommodate a machine and the attendant drier...
Romantic Linda is the heroine of Pursuit. When she and her sisters grew up, Linda's adolescent dreams ended in her marrying a dry-as-dust son of a governor of the Bank of England. She left him to marry an even drier & dustier Communist, and was at her lowest ebb when her Galahad turned up-a French duke whose wicked charms should set U.S. bosoms aflame from coast to coast...