Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grumpy, as if they just could not enjoy political surprises. But most others found it a rather relaxing interlude in a tough year-even the Scots, who also take politics seriously. Said one dour Scotsman who found himself in London last week: "I thought something silly like this might happen. I hope it won't go to the puir wee mon's head...
Reporter Root outlined his views in somber detail in the Christian Century. Though he wrote even before the fall of Mukden, Root did not find it hard to believe the Communist boast of complete control of China within three or four years. If that should happen, what would be the prospects for Christianity...
...point is that Wood, like most authors who have something to write about, took the trouble to write is as simply and clearly as he could. Now if you happen to be James Joyce, and what you have to say is very special, then even the clearest way of saying it may not be at all easy to follow. The difficulty in Miss Handy's poem--which is its punctuaton--I now think to be this sort of necessary difficulty. But I will bet that Joyce and Miss Handy wrote as simply as their subjects permitted them to write...
Occasional epidemics still must be expected, according to Moore, since "an occasional accident will happen unless you have an inspector for every person who handles food...
...clean up the messes they have made and are making, then Paris will be the old place again"), but it is precisely this relaxed laziness of thought that gives him not only his sensuous warmth but his faculty to echo, like a verbatim record, whatever scenes or conversations may happen to brush up against his impressionable senses...