Word: manquee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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2) Wilson is a don manque. He and his wife have always dreamed of retiring to one of the more luxurious and pretigious college masterships at Oxford or Cambridge. Wilson's chances of receiving such a plum would be immeasurably greater if he resigns and lets his friends into power...
While he fails, Irish Author Sean O'Faolain succeeds-by making the doctor's story a haunting reminiscence. His title for this exercise, How to Write a Short Story, is both a gentle spoof of the rule-ridden writer manque and a bit of well-earned boasting. O...
There are some books whose reviews should run upside down. They are the volumes which mainly add up to a series of short answers-tomes like the Guinness Book of World Records or the Baseball Encyclopedia. Seven hundred twenty-three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the...
Thomas is a readable writer, and the events of the McCarthy period provide fine substance for his narrative sweep. Although he warns that his book is not a biography, Thomas convincingly illustrates the days of McCarthy's life. He settles on the metaphor of the buccaneer, and the book's...
Thomas is a readable writer, and the events of the McCarthy period provide fine substance for his narrative sweep. Although he warns that his book is not a biography, Thomas convincingly illustrates the days of McCarthy's life. He settles on the metaphor of the buccaneer, and the book's...