Word: emigree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sebastian Knight, a novelist, has fallen through the last trap door, death. His half brother, the nameless first-person narrator of the novel, feels the loss like a psychic amputation. It is as if a great secret had been buried with Sebastian, perhaps the meaning of life itself. The half...
Far back in the tropical wilderness of new Guinea, a jungle newspaper distributor was recently asked by the management of the South Pacific Post (circ. 4,218 twice weekly) if the 50 copies he was getting were enough. "Thank you," he replied politely, "but I sell only ten to people...
Under the long, lemon-tinted gown and the towering headdress of aigrette plumes, the tall, tawny body is heavier now. The warm eyes seem smaller, softer, in a face fleshed with age. But the quick, bright smile is as vivid as ever; the remembered throb of her voice still husks...
The new job more than eased the pain of losing out in a power squeeze at CBS-TV (Robinson was passed over for the network presidency, then for its No. 2 spot, executive vice president). Said Robinson: "I will also be directly concerned with the job of creation, a thing...
"As a basis for the study of the history and literature of the U.S.S.R.," he said, "are the special libraries of the universities. In particular the enormous Russian department of Harvard University Library numbers hundreds of thousands of volumes." He seemed impressed by the fact that Widener contained "full sets...