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Gradually, Johnny Marquand turned into a Marquand hero, with a certain capacity for drift. He fought through World War I untouched ("I saw a lot of people killed, but I don't think it did very much to me"). As a cub reporter, he seemed willing to hang on at $50 a week on the New York Tribune, but got a job as an advertising copywriter almost by accident. His first novel, a historical called The Unspeakable Gentleman, was not much good, but he sold it, and so, like his characters to come, he was trapped...
...warrior! The arch and pillar of our house!"), her hair tumbles in disorder, and she tears at her cheeks with her fingernails till they are crisscrossed with red gashes and running with tears and blood. In the mesmeric half-trance of the dirge, the singer has been known to drift far out and lament high taxes, the price of salt, the need for roads, and the Bulgarian frontier-all in faultless couplets. Sans couplets, but with 20/20 sight and insight, Author Fermor has fashioned a durable portrait of the enduring people who inhabit the mythical rock garden of the gods...
...church hierarchy. When he died last year, his common-sense successor, Paul Sauve, tried to modernize the party but died in turn before his reforms could take effect. The compromise successor as premier, Antonio Barrette, 61, had no program of his own, and let his party and the province drift...
Through the fogs and damps of London drift thousands of Africans, a long way from the sunlit ease of their homelands. They live in bleak, crowded rooming houses in Netting Hill and Paddington, find their entertainment in smoky cellar nightclubs that are loud with West Indian steel bands, bongo drums and maracas. They are genuinely puzzled when the Jumbles (a corruption of John Bulls) object to the noise and the dawn revelry. "What harm do we do?" asked an African last week. "We like to dance and sing, and we've worked hard all day and till late...
...like a locomotive-and could pass the technical muster of any engineer. A Conrad cartoon is readily digested at a glance. That glance, he feels certain, is all the reader will give it: "I figure eight seconds is the absolute maximum time anyone should have." Talking balloons almost never drift above the heads of his characters, who are generally so identifiable that they need no name tags; his captions are either commendably short or absent altogether...