Word: offshoot
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...explain the down-to-earth gravity of Firbank's thistledown art, and to deal with the strange power of such lines as " 'He has only one eye and I never know which one is looking at me,' the Queen would sometimes complain." Although apparently a freakish offshoot of modern literature, Firbank was actually a great innovator, Powell suggests. Two masters of dialogue, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh, sat in Firbank's school. In fact, Firbank's exotics-improbable princesses, epicene cardinals, Caribbean market queens and so on-talk with the raw strength of Hardy...
Strictly speaking, the Review is not a Yale institution but a literary offshoot, born on campus and nourished by the university. Yale undergraduates rarely read it, and the new faculty member who thinks it exists mainly to reprint his lectures soon learns otherwise. Nor is it a house organ; the university would no more dream of telling Review Editor John J. E. Palmer how to run a national quarterly than would Editor Palmer (Louisiana Polytechnic Institute '35) consider telling Yale President A. Whitney Griswold how to run a university...
...Mahatma, Tara Singh knows what he wants: he hopes to force Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to partition about two-thirds of the Punjab's 47,456 square miles into an acU ministrative area independent of Hindu domination. The Punjabi-speaking Sikhs, whose monotheistic religion is an offshoot of the Hindu but without its caste system and swarms of gods and demigods, are the only one of India's 14 major linguistic groups without a separate state...
...shelter business" has been in California-a phenomenon apparently due in equal measure to the state's unusual concentration of bomb-conscious scientists and to its even greater concentration of those who, whatever is being done, want to be the first to do it. Fox Hole Shelter, Inc., offshoot of a swimming-pool firm that got into shelters two years ago by turning its original product upside down, has already sold 236 Fox Holes from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Sacramento's Atlas Bomb Shelter is starting to merchandise a 35-ton prefab model for six that...
...bladder), Ulbricht runs his country with undiminished authority, working as many as 18 hours a day. barking rapid-fire orders in his high-pitched voice. There is only a bare pretense of democracy. Technically, Ulbricht's S.E.D. rules not alone, but with four other parties (including a sham offshoot of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party) in a National Front whose united list of candidates is presented to voters at each election with no other choices. After the election rituals, the S.E.D. always gains control of the Volkskammer (Peoples' Chamber), a rubber-stamp legislature that follows Ulbricht...