Word: escapee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
If contemplating the politics of despair has left you a little ill in mind and heart, if you crave a measure of vicarious escape, I do not direct you to the series of fourteen novels Ross MacDonald has written about Los Angeles private detective Lew Archer. That would be a...
Since the publication of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest on February 1, 1929, the best crime novels have not offered much in the way of escape or solid, mindless entertainment. Nowadays, even the casual student of the American pathologies, public and private, may find the fiction of mayhem crucially disturbing...
And so it went--the play getting sloppier, the time getting shorter for the Crimson to escape embarrassing defeat. Finally, with just over six minutes to go, Scott Robertson's shot was cleared by the Green, but right into the waiting foot of Jaime Vargas.
Against Karras' Lions in the season opener, Green Bay had to come from behind to escape with a 17-17 tie. They then barely scraped by the so-so Chicago Bears 13-10 on a last-minute field goal, and won uninspired victories (27-17, 23-0) in a...
They kill the time with intellectual vaudeville-puns, word games, syllogistic oneupmanship. As they do so, it becomes apparent that Stoppard owes fully as much to Samuel Beckett as he does to Shakespeare. R. and G. are transparent replicas of the two tramps who wait for Godot. But where Beckett...