Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...REGARDED AS A RUSSOPHOBE. AND WILLIAM C. BULLITT, WHOSE UNMASKING OF THE CHICANERY AND TREACHERY OF COMMUNIST POLICY HAS PARALLELED MINE, MUST ALSO BE BRANDED A RUSSOPHOBE. IN FACT ANYONE WHO SIDES WITH RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES AGAINST THE SOVIET SATRAPS SHOULD BE BY YOUR DEFINITION A RUSSOPHOBE-A NOVEL DOCTRINE FOR A MAGAZINE WHICH COMMUNISTS DESCRIBE AS RUSSOPHOBE...
Neither of these combinations is novel to engine designers. Both have been discussed for many years as promising possibilities. Technical improvements discovered during the development of the turbojet engine made them practical. The turbojet's threat to piston engines made them necessary...
...Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn tennis...
Each of these works runs to some 300 pages and each is as long and as closely packed as a novel in itself. Finally, there is a prologue and an epilogue, laid in 1944 and 1945, explaining that the three books are a manuscript left by a great American, a former Supreme Court Justice, Orville Windom (obviously modeled on Oliver Wendell Holmes), as both his concept of family history and his testament of the American heritage...
...novel that Orville Windom's grandchildren find in his strongbox after his death is not a very good novel. In fact, a reader not sharing their family interest might be tempted to say that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...