Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lest my readers fear this reviewer became drowsy during the proceedings, let him speedily assure them that such was not the course of events, for The Big Sleep is imbued with as many dark shadows, black roadsters, languorous blondes, scotch whiskeys, rainy nights and attendant mackintoshes, muggings, pluggings, and gratifying resolutions as any of the epics of Bogie's prime. Lamentably, he is not in such a condition today; he is the sort of man the People could use in the White House. But I digress...
...slump is, so far, not statistically catastrophic, the President's Fabian tactics may have some rationale. But the refusal to let the serious unemployment shake any of his economic convictions can have far more damaging effects. The recession, representing not a "loss of confidence," but a real and recurrent problem in an "affluent society," demands a reassessment of some of the President's cherished economic slogans...
...this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates Yo'-Yales," let their monster loose; the lizard completely demolished the entire Yale campus...
...let the other guy live your life, and you like him for it--the Jimmy Dean sort of guy. And when you want to rebel you grow a beard, wear levis and cowboy boots, or smoke a pipe. But is this life? If one of these fellows with their picture-book notions ever met life face-to-face it would blow up his sand castle but good. They're even afraid of cracks in the sidewalk." He pulled out a cigarette, and someone had a lighter...
...Wrote home for money and they sent it quick. Told them if they didn't I'd take up bull-fighting; or maybe gun-running in Algeria. They always liked me pretty much, anyway. I let the draft boys know I was studying Spanish for some diplomatic spot, so between us we were all happy...