Word: misters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and rarely exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man ; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...
...Cross worker paused to chat with a sergeant who had spent 13 months in Korea. Said the sergeant: "For 15 months the guys have been running up and down these mountains getting their fannies full of lead. And what have we proved? I got news for you, Mister; the next time this boy fights to defend anybody's country, it'll damn well be his own." But an officer said: "You seen Seoul? We11.. I'd hate for that to be Decatur, Illinois...
Through this campus gale last week the smiling admiral ("It's 'mister' now-since 9 o'clock this morning") seemed to be setting a confident course. Just why the board had chosen him, no one on campus quite knew, though some suspected that it was "a move of vengeance" directed against the faculty's recent attempt to take over the college athletic policy (TIME...
...Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...
...Mister Johnson is considerably more than the portrait of a picaresque primitive. In a short novel, Cary has managed to convey the squalor of African village existence, the frustrations of English officials and the enormous volatility and friendliness of the Nigerian native. Novelist Cary, unlike most of his fellow practitioners, always seems to write as if he enjoyed it. In Mister Johnson his pleasure edges every sentence...