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Word: offerin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...heavy with bitterness. Says one Jamaican: "If ever there's any fightin' in our parts o' de world, we'd be nastier to the English than to any one, because we'd be remembering that for generations an' generations we'd been offerin' them a love they never even try to return." Author Lamming himself has done better than most Indies emigrants. Not yet 30, he has been a BBC broadcaster, his writing has been widely praised, and he is now in the U.S. on a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Emigrants fails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Half World | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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