Word: offing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But one of the pieces that makes the anthology well worth attention is one of Gold's own, Love and Like. The author examines a young man who is trying to put his life back together a few weeks after a shattering divorce. He seems to be succeeding until...
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A second trip brings him a Ph.D. degree, and a third a lifetime supply of that scholarly formaldehyde, tenure. Surprisingly, his life as an aborigine (he is accepted as a Dang) makes considerably more sense to him than his hollow existence as an academician. The savages consider him a master...
In Boston last week, famed Grocers S. S. Pierce & Co. were doing a brisk business in an item whose output is sharply limited: "Honegar," a fifty-fifty mixture of honey and apple-cider vinegar, compounded by Mrs. Catherine Perry, using frontier-housewife techniques, at Hartland Four Corners, Vt. And all...
Subtitled "A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health," the book has astonished booksellers by creeping to the upper level of bestseller lists and staying there for months-despite the fact that, when it appeared in 1958, it attracted no more critical attention than its nonsensical content of pseudo...