Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this heavy jewelry and the increasingly feminine sweaters and skirts require pretty, polished shoes--and certainly no sneakers. Classrooms are in for a new era of neat loafers and slim low pumps, or the handsome British shoes and their imitations now flooding the market. Stockings are important; the woolly anklets take their place with the extinct Great...
...slowly realizes that it is impossible to prove his sanity. By subtly exaggerating all his slight abnormalities, the woman convinces the doctors that he is mentally unsound. And with their limited understanding, these psychiatrists add her reports to the man's attempted suicide to emerge with a neat and totally inaccurate diagnosis. From that point, they call anything he says the ravings of an insane individual...
Worst of all, by using the formal rhythms of artificial comedy to set forth solemn cliches, The Sacred Flame comes off stilted prose rather than human talk, while the production deals in statuary rather than people. Maugham is a naturally neat writer; but the neatness, here, is that of an inferior toupee...
...Tennessee hills 45 miles northwest of Knoxville lies Royal Blue, a model coal-mining town. Its 300 miners' cottages, owned by the Blue Diamond Coal Co., are neat and attractive, and set in their own plots. Royal Blue has one of the county's biggest schools, a well-stocked company store, and a reputation as one of the healthiest and cleanest mining towns in the U.S. But last week the mine was closed down for good. For the town it was a death sentence, since Blue Diamond's Royal Blue is the only employer...
...Gary's singular explanation of what he thinks he is doing is drowned and swept away in the torrent of what he actually does. From the pregnant chaos of his books something better and more beautiful emerges than a neat pseudo-world of ideas: he has "created" human' beings, men, women & children, alive and kicking...