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...first American novelist to enjoy literary success in Europe was an ex-naval officer from upstate New York named James Fenimore Cooper. His father, a rich landowner, founded Cooperstown, N.Y., where Abner Doubleday was to invent baseball, but where Cooper made an even greater invention-the noble red man and the heroic myth of the American frontier. On Cooper's novels of the New York wilderness-The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer-rests the somewhat guarded claim of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he is "the most important man of letters ever connected with Yale...
...from Moscow for 345,000 tons of sugar worth $21,500,000. Then Mikoyan moved in. His theme was to identify Russia and Cuba as comrades fighting the same fight against the U.S. and capitalism. Said Mikoyan: "You Cubans will understand me if I tell you that the imperialists invent more lies about us than they do about you. They try to bury the truth in slime...
...long ago, the thinkers on the RCA Victor staff were invited to invent a name for a new teen-age pop singer. Among the suggestions were "Erpsil Clevinger," "Ellie Oopman," "Cahn Edison" and "Rod Reel." None of these quite filled the bill, but the company soon hit on one that did -"Rod Lauren." Last week, big as life, Rod was climbing the charts with a pop hit called If I Had a Girl, having almost forgotten the fact that his real name is Roger Strunk...
Those Arkansas Ozark daddies didn't invent hunkering. The yogi did, centuries ago. They refer to the posture as utkea sana...
Director Helmut Kautner's point is that loneliness and pride make communication well-nigh impossible between people. The seventeen-year-old girl feels she must invent rich relatives, fiancees, pipe dreams, in order to be loved, and these lies set up a terrible barrier between herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose...