Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his travels, he was a sort of premature Cook's tourist in his friar's habit who noted the price of everything, even to the fees he got for every Mass he said. Author Gage's intention was to shock his English Puritan public with the riches and avariciousness of the Roman church in the New World; today's reader might feel that he is being conducted by an accountant among the wonders of a clash of faiths and civilizations...
...anything useful was achieved would depend not only on Dwight Eisenhower, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev. It would depend, too, on Gamal Abdel Nasser, a man who in the past has shown a blind determination to gratify his own imperialistic ambitions though the heavens fall. Unless Nasser renounced his habit of setting international forest fires in the calm assumption that someone else would put them out, no agreements achieved at any summit meeting could bring stability to the Middle East...
...gambling; the least effective are Anthony's introspective monologues. Some of the descriptive passages are pat and common coin from the American Weekly and the Advocate. The pages are littered with italicized French terms. Perhaps because the style is adopted, it is self-conscious. Guerard has the disturbing habit of affirming himself in the middle of a sentence with a superflous...
...title story, an old man of the theater still has the habit but not the manpower to go with it. Left by his mistress, aging George tries to remarry his divorced wife. Turned down, he turns to a much younger woman for whom the old boy is a catch of convenience. Married, he discovers that a marriage of male habit and female indifference is not enough to keep off the evening chill. After a trip to Italy, his wife recites a simple fact of life to him: "George, you know you're getting too old for this sort...
...selfless love nor old-fashioned romantic love gets much of a chance in these stories. Their themes can be banal, as in He, which has a pathetic and overworked English shrew driving her husband into the arms of another woman but wanting him back at any cost. Sometimes the habit becomes just plain infidelity, as in Getting Off the Altitude. In A Mild Attack of Locusts, the habit turns into love of the land, even when the African locusts make the land a crushing burden. A female leftist in The Day Stalin Died has the party habit so bad that...