Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever happens, his present surpassing skill at "being useful" is the main reason why the average veteran at Harvard never had it so good...
...Sherwood said that the late President was "the most complex character" he had even known or read about. The playwright described Roosevelt's relationship to Stalin as a close, personal one upon which the President pinned many of his hopes. It is regrettable that our relations with Russia never achieved a firmer basis, Sherwood concluded...
...names of Benes and Masaryk must never be mentioned...
...Walls. In Point of No Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn...
...many of Marquand's readers, Point of No Return will seem a little more troubling and pessimistic than most of his works. But Marquand thinks that man is slowly growing up and that man's hope lies in a prospect of greater maturity. "Most people," he said, "never grow up. The thing we've got to do in our institutions is try to build up more maturity. Mature people are happier. At least they can rationalize the world in such a way that they are not going to beat their heads against a wall. I certainly think...