Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . An amusing incident happened in our own home which, I believe, just about sums up the whole nation's attitude toward meatless Tuesday.
Proud of His Slap. General Patton's boasting is more straightforward. In a final chapter called Earning My Pay, he cites 34 instances during his career when "my personal intervention had some value." Among them he includes the notorious slapping incident in Sicily. Writes Patton: ". . . Had other officers had...
John Ashbery, no stranger to the Advocate's pages, has turned his ever-competent hand to prose this month. The result is a dream-like story of innuendo, that flits from the amusing to the near-terrifying. "Fete Galante" has as its scene a ball given by an old man...
In the best British film manner, "Tawny Pipit" assumes that it is the commonplace that is worth examining. The incident of a rare species of bird nesting in a small English village offers camera and actors an appropriate chance to reproduce quiet, minutely-scaled rural life pretty much as it...
Two of the stories succeed, largely because they focus on a concrete event; but the third, called "Apprentice," is nothing but a long, almost pointless narrative that is written carelessly. "The Prisoner," by Roger Princerd, is the high point of the magazine, owing its success to a straightforward and unpretentious...