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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is an interchange at Sturbridge for Route 15 to Hartford, New Haven, and New York City, which avoids the dangerous and often congested Wor-cester Bypass. The travelling time to the interchange is 45 to 50 minutes...
This Democratic growth, which characterizes all of the West, is often facetiously attributed to the greater virtue and intelligence of the inhabitants of this part of the country, but actually there are more permanent reasons for the rise of the Democratic party in the region. The present administration's antipathy to the development of public power and to the plight of the farmer has certainly been detrimental to the Republican cause, as was especially evidenced in the power-conscious Northwest and in the Rocky Mountain farm states. Other factors are the Administration's unpopular hand-ling of Indian, reclamation...
...pictures of women treated as moon goddesses, as concrete skeletons on a beach or as interlocking arabesques with strange, brooding masks. They reveal little about the outward appearance of the numerous women who have responded to Picasso's own vitality, but they clearly record Picasso's own often savage counter-response. With children (he has four) Picasso has almost invariably used distortion sympathetically to reinforce rather than mock childhood's peculiar and perilous excitement...
...their egotism is preferable to the deadly altruism of the '30s, whose intellectuals minded everybody's business and loved mankind with a dreadful abstract love often indistinguishable from hatred. But Lucky Jim and pals also possess the defect of their egotistical virtue. Determined not to pledge a false allegiance, they reject all allegiances as false...
Opening a collection of short stories by a new writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...