Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better that her rusted shell Should rest beneath the wave; If naval hearts have turned to lead, Then leave her to her grave; Left flounders man her silent gun, Let squid now grasp her wheel; For men once bold, have lost their nerve, And only ships are steel! Stephen O. Saxe '51 and Andrew E. Norman '51, With thanks to Oliver W. Holmee...
Shortly before his death, reported the New York Times Book Review, Sinclair Lewis had reached a decision: "America is too big for the Great American Novel. America's impossible to grasp...
...fact that most of the material in this issue is difficult to grasp does not, however, mean that the reader should slink back to Quick without at least testing his mettle. He can feel safe, with this issue of the Advocate, that he will get something for his effort...
Naturally, Ambler's villains aren't getting their orders from Berlin this time. With his usual sound grasp of regional realities, he wraps his story around the "treason" trial of a liberal politician. Why have the Reds gone after Yordan Delt-chev in the first place? And why have they thrown such fantastic charges at him? Ambler thrusts his British journalist hero, Foster, into the thick of things to ask those questions, then leads him a chase to the answers. Foster trips over a corpse almost as soon as he begins to poke around...
...performance. Edward Zambara was as satisfactory looking a villain as one is likely to see, but his clear diction was somewhat spoiled by a thick American accent. It was evident that the pronunciation in general was carefully worked over, but even so the words were difficult to grasp. John Patterson, as the hero Amadis, was the only character who was often less that satisfactory; he was bothered throughout by a lack of acting ability...