Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Romans laughed at this old joke last week. But buxom, 19-year-old Annamarie Proietti was too angry to smile. Annamarie is a waitress from Rome's Communist-filled slums who last week slipped off to swarming, breezy Ostia for an afternoon on the beach with her boy...
Modern Talk. Now living in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Héctor Poleo hears so much talk of war that war has become an obsession. "I worry all the time. Everyone begin to talk about a new war. These people don't know the true war or else...
Hughes is moderately deaf but disdains a hearing aid. He hears well on the telephone, which is, by long odds, his favorite channel of communication with other human beings. Since he sleeps only when he is sleepy, he calls up his lieutenants at all hours of the night. Sometimes he...
From 1892 to 1904 Chekhov, then at the height of his fame, kept a set of unpretentious workbooks. In them he jotted judgments brief and sufficient as a child's ("He who tells lies is dirty"). He sketched ideas for Stories, many of which he never wrote. Readers can...
Discursions. Intermixed with these scenes are long essays on revolution and German philosophy, brief glimpses of minor characters in a technique similar to that of John Dos Passes in U.S.A., long autobiographical discursions grouped under the heading: The Disintegration of Values. Some of them are hauntingly phrased: "The man who...