Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOYCE GARY, by Malcolm Foster. The first full-scale biography of the late-blooming author of The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised reveals his vision of the world as a struggle between creative man and organized authority...
...make our code realistic? Proclaim to the world that a captured soldier is regarded as a puppet while in enemy hands. As such, he will mouth words or write documents as his captor dictates. Thus, the propaganda value of a "confession" will become insignificant, and the helpless prisoner will be spared opprobrium for being human...
...Bronson La Follette in Wisconsin. "In previous times, you had to be born in a log cabin to be elected to office," notes John Jay McCloy, who has been called the board chairman of the U.S. Wasp Establishment. "Now, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth often means you have a distinct advantage. This would seem to indicate that the tradition of the Adamses, Elihu Root and Henry Stimson is perhaps even greater today...
...deeply concerned about this: Mickey Mouse speaking, and walking on his hind legs. I am concerned because I have now seen Walt Disney make Edward Bear speak. Winnie the Pooh does not have a mouth. Once, I remember, Ernest Shepard drew a tongue, very tiny, searching for honey. But Winnie the Pooh does not have a mouth. If only he had spared us that--the scratchy whiny, loud voice...
...when he created his gallery of characters. Though Gary was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat by birth (the Carys of Cary Castle, Donegal), his brief training as a painter helped him get inside the skin of his most famous creature, the artist-bum Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth. Experience as a British colonial official (from 1914 to 1920 in Nigeria) lent nuances to one of the best portraits of an emergent African in fiction, the black-skinned hero of Gary's fifth book, Mister Johnson...