Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be hard to deny that Youth Festivals have served, and probably will continue to serve, as Communist front organizations. The official American reaction has been that participation should therefore be avoided and that, when possible, participators should be penalized. This year a number of international student groups have refused to participate--as have Austrian student organizations--and the American government may well be in good company...
...folds of her apron. Whether this development shows a) a remarkable talent for double incompetency, i.e., she reads a good piece, doesn't like it but prints it anyway, or b) that good writers and poets aren't really ashamed to see themselves appear in her pages, is hard to say. One should talk sweet of the aged, and of the performance in her current issue, such talk need be neither hypocritical nor gratuitous. If a reader wishes there were a little more of her, he can comfort himself by sensing that she is, at least, there. A fellow...
...cannot pierce his almost inhuman exterior. Initially, the telephonic association of the pair seems implausible because it is such an appalling coincidence. Yet as she herself emerges as the subject of her own fantasy, the elements of the tale fall tidily into place, leaving the cold sensation of hard and real characters existing only as shatterproof shells. Without evidence of conscious effort, Kulukundis has managed to sketch characters who develop as they interact with each other, not with the author's conception of them. And his fast and clean style complements the carefully woven story he tells...
...Hard-presesd for time, Miss Albright practices for an hour-and-a-half each morning before classes. She spent her undergraduate years at Radcliffe and is now a second year student at the Medical School...
...East of Eden" reminds you enough of adult westerns to make the transition easy. Its characters are the simple "morality play" characters of the Western put in situations where good and evil are hard to define, and only love wins...