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Word: gunsberg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right in the first sentence of the first story, An Habitation Enforced, a leggy prose takes the reader in stride: "It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine." The third and fourth stories, a political allegory and a science fiction (which predicts that in 2000 A.D. the dirigible will replace the airplane), are empty shows of the author's variety. He seems to do everything easily, and nothing really well. But in the fifth story, A Deal in Cotton (a wild yarn, all fever and cannibals, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drops from a Rusty Spigot | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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