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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wisely used current Americanisms to give the language the proper effervescense and irreverance. To render the play in early twentieth century American would have been a gray business: nothing is as dead as dead slang. Senelick's greatest triumph is his version of a Spaniard (Daniel Deitch) speaking English. Gerund endings are assiduously dropped where they should be; b's and v's are assaulted with appropriate force...
This is the first edition to appear in English of that strange, yet curious work, The Story of F by the mysterious Paulette Trepan who has us all guessing who she is. We at Grove Press are proud to be behind this work 100 per cent in case the passages on pages 35, 74 and 99 result in any litigation. Much as we dislike litigation we are unalterably courageous in these matters...
...woman. I can grovel before the original of this superb, unabashed sexual woman without a qualm. I ask only to bring the beauty of her limpid prose before the English-speaking world. Though if the reader will permit, I have stopped somewhat this side of abject enslavement. I ask only to bare this woman's essence to the world. We must know who she is. Why has she kept herself in secret? She must be a lovely creature to know so much of the whip...
Errors & Alliances. Chou, with his multilingual facility (Russian, Japanese, French and English) and broad exposure to the outside world after eight years as Foreign Minister, ranks third in the Red Chinese hierarchy (after Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao) and is perhaps the most pragmatic of Peking's leaders. Though Chou has led many a Red Guard rally in singing The East Is Red and Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman, Chairman Mao, he has been the constant voice of what passes for moderation in China. While supporting the Cultural Revolution verbally, he has fought hard to keep...
...count shows that six previous survivors of the Powell epic are killed off in this novel. In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish-notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction. He is now on the make as a staff major, a virtuoso of bumf, and he chews poor Jenkins' ear in a war of total paper...