Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widespread American belief that man is essentially good runs into hard going south of the Mason-Dixon line. Perhaps because they are the only Americans who ever lost a war, Southerners are more likely than others to take a tragic view of life, and man's depravity is the favorite preoccupation of Southern literature-whether magnolia-scented or corn-likker-tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that...
Main interest must focus on James Mason who plays the role of British Ambassador's valet in neutral Turkey. Top secret minutes from the Teheran conference and plans for the Normandy invasion are stuffed in the Embassy's flimsy safe, and Mason knows the combination. Frustrated by his menial life, he photographs the documents and sells the film to the incredulous Nazis. While he amasses roughly two hundred thousand pounds in weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman...
...James Mason's treatment of Cicero, the spy, is hardly "noble, eloquent, and dissatisfied" as he remembers the Roman orator whom he wishes to emulate. Unfortunately his own way of subduing unleashed ambition is uncertain, and while his eloquence nevers falters, his nobility wavers too much for him to be a spy in the grand manner. The spy, he observes, "must have disgust for poverty, and faith in the future of money." Though continually dedicated to becoming affluent, he sometimes seems unsure of how to do it. This ambiguity makes him dubious as a character who claims...
...problem, came to a personal conclusion that "the Supreme Court's opinions are the law of the land." (West Virginia has moved as rapidly toward integration as any border state.) Later Marland switched Laird to the state tax commission. The new Senator is a Presbyterian, a Lion, a Mason and an American Legionnaire (eligibility: a six-month Navy hitch in World War II during which he rose to seaman second class before receiving a medical discharge...
...Sauvie Island outbreak was stopped by putting almost a pound of antibiotics in every ton of turkey feed. But where the turkeys get the virus remained a mystery. The Columbia River's wild ducks were suspected because they mooch free meals in the turkey runs. But Dr. Donald Mason (on loan to Oregon from the U.S. Public Health Service) admitted: "We may never know whether the ducks gave the disease to the turkeys, or vice versa...