Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was not till Poor Richard that Franklin hit his stride as a maker and collector of aphorisms; e.g., "After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy." "Men and Melons are hard to know," "There is no little enemy." Poor Richard, of course, is...
Lies here, Food for Worms.
For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more,
Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by...
Subtitled "A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health," the book has astonished booksellers by creeping to the upper level of bestseller lists and staying there for months-despite the fact that, when it appeared in 1958, it attracted no more critical attention than its nonsensical content of pseudo...