Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unnoticed by Mr. Bingham, who was busy vetoing rule modifications, General Eisenhower, cast at least one ray of light on a clouded situation laght night. "I am not available," he parried to reporters after they had thrust. Ox DaGrosa could not be reached...
Water-skiing entails little expense and far fewer fractures than its snowy sister sport. All you need is a speedboat, a quiet lagoon, several hundred feet of light rope, and, above all, a life preserver to keep you afloat...
...reaching an agreement. India feels that Kashmir is rightfully hers despite an overwhelming Moslem population--the Hindu ruler preferred to stay out of Mohammedan Pakistan. She claims that the invading Punjab tribesmen have the backing of the Pakistan, Government and points out that the raiders have recently used light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin its rival and sabotage partition of the sub-continent. Foreign...
There is too much of everything in The Patchwork Time, too many recollections of childhood in the light of which maturity seems miserable, too many beers, too many fights, too many episodes all ending the same way, too many plots, too many betrayals, so that the reader's instinctive reaction is that it can't possibly be that bad, and that something fundamental has been left...
...that what has been left out is more important and dramatic to smalltown life than what the novel contains-that the daily routines of the teaching of history or a job with the light company are more interesting than the talks in the barroom; that the religious faith of the community has an elevation more significant than is expressed in its condemnation of sexual misdoings; that the tormented love affairs reveal a groping tenderness deeper than the bitter words that attend their endings; and finally, that the whole texture of life, the routines of going to work and to school...