Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peasants, who have stuck to their primitive Catholicism through years of socialist poverty. Twice he has a chance to escape: the first time he answers the call of a dying woman, and later he returns from across the border to the aid of a dying man, only to find that he has been trapped by the police, who have sought him from the opening scene...
...live in the Harvard housing development known as Shaler Lane. We have just received notice that rents are being raised to about $84.00 per month. Our heating bill averages $20.00 per month. Thus the cost of having a place to live is over $100.00 per month. I find it incredible that a university of the stature of Harvard should not only not subsidize housing for its students in general, and its married students in particular, but that it should charge rents beyond the capacity of many students. Surely Harvard does not assume that everyone seeking an education here has parents...
...perhaps even elusive at times, it has a consistency and logic that emerge in a second reading. The logic and consistency seem a sign that the author has planned precisely where he is taking his characters; if their destination is not clear in the excerpt, readers doubtless will find clarification when they see the whole...
...American dinosaur, to Romney, is the long, low, chrome-laden U.S. auto, i.e., any car of his Big Three competitors. Where does he hunt it? At conventions, Rotary meetings, congressional hearings, wherever he can find a platform or a soapbox. He closes in on the quarry with a verbal barrage. Back and forth he rocks, clenching his fists, screwing his handsome face into an intense mask. Out shoot the words in evangelical, organlike tones; down flies his big fist to shake the dust from the table...
...ancient days." This suggests that "primitive Christianity may also return," not so much reuniting man with his immediate past as carrying him far back through the centuries, to begin again at Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with his two brothers, in the same relation to the hope-bearing Child as did three wise men of the East 2.000 years before...