Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rondels are not written to Paris in the winter, when it does in fact drizzle and cold fogs enshroud the Seine. But to Madame Mai Ky, 26, the beautiful wife of South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, the first trip to the "City of Lights" was...
The spring holds less flamboyant promises, as well. John Cheever has finished Bullet Park, a chronicle of fathers and sons and the communications chasm in suburbia. Kurt Vonnegut has found a subject that will support any amount of black humor and white rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived...
AMERICANA PASTORAL. The citizens of a deprived South Carolina town find that the savior who will revive their cotton mill is black. The town's rejection of prosperity on these terms, and the explosion that results, might have provided the occasion for a dramatic exploration of attitudes and tensions...
Because he was such a firm democrat, Thomas found no interest or enchantment in Soviet-style Communism. "The thing which is happening in Russia," he said after a visit during the 1930s, "is not socialism, and it is not the thing which we hope to bring about in America, or...
Britain's House of Lords was debating a knotty problem: whether or not to lower from 21 to 18 the age at which a man may marry without parental consent. Finally, up stepped that superfeminist and onetime minister under Clement Attlee, Lady Summerskill, 67, to oppose the measure and...