Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, a lucid little novel, the hero is given a chance to find out. The story opens at the Kursk station in Moscow on a bright April day in 1902. Osokin, a young man of 26, is seeing Zinaida and her mother off to...
But Bongo winds up his slapping all too soon. As the Northwoods twilight sends Bonge packing, the last gleam of comedy also dies, and the remainder of the picture is unbearable--in both senses. Edgar Bergen spins a new version of Jack and the Beanstalk, but while the beanstalk flourishes...
A cop associates professionally, as it were, with perverts, hopheads, gunmen and bums of all kinds, and he sometimes gets in the habit of popping them a few times, in the privacy of the station house, just for their own good. Being human, he may take a certain natural satisfaction...
Once Jones, through a political value he did not know he had, almost slips out of channels and up to the President. The 1944 election is coming on, this is a democracy, and minorities are important. A White House secretary hears of Jones and figures he's just the...
"The Moslem's day begins when he hears the muezzin (prayer-time announcer) calling to prayers just before sunrise: 'La ilaha, ilia Allah, Mohamed rasul Allah!' (There is but one God, and Mohamed is his prophet!). The Moslem washes himself-his whole body 'if he has...