Word: halley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prose pieces of real merit are reminiscences (both true and "untrue") by lesser known writers, Anne Halley, Robert, Hellman, Diana Athill. Miss Halley's piece, a really magnificent sketch, recalls her life (or the life of her herine) as a child in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. When the Nazis ascend to power her family leaves for America...
...beginning of the story has already indicated what effect it has had upon her parents: "They use paper napkins instead of the linen, rolled up in napkin rings; they like Pepperidge Farm bread and even Jello." The tale is, on a number of counts very sad, Miss Halley's prose is rich and evocative, and the story's exquisite construction succeeds in delaying the point until the very...
...final pot-shot at the romanticists, Liller discounted the popular 1910 reports of the size and brightness of Halley's comet. He remarked that at least two comets sighted within the last ten years and hardly noticed by the public were probably as bright as or brighter than Halley's comet...