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...full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border," McMahon's men within hours cleared off Fort St. John's airport, spread gravel on the walks at nearby Taylor and overlaid it with miles of corrugated cardboard...
...Hemingway people's worship of the bull ring suggests (it was perhaps no real mistake in identity when, Lael Tucker notes with pleasure, her husband once was mistaken for "Papa" Hemingway at Spain's Pamplona ring). And so a story that is often deeply moving is also overlaid with words and gestures that have the air of gruesome parody, as when Lael Tucker says to her husband in the last moments: "I love you I love you please die." Or when Wertenbaker with one hand holds his bleeding surgical wound (an abscess had formed soon) and with...
...denying that college for me was a joyride, but its transitory joys only overlaid its bitter reality. Having a car, for instance, provided comfort to, from, and during the battle of the sexes, but my young ladies, since I preferred ladies, surrendered very little, indeed. And the fact that it is a misdemeanor to keep a car in Cambridge adds little to the bliss of the academic life...
Hobgoblin Mood. Burchfield's love for nature grew naturally out of his boyhood in Salem, Ohio. The woods, fields and swamps on Salem's outskirts were his favorite refuge, where he found a private world overlaid with hobgoblin moods, hints of dark, mysterious forces and occasional lyrical sunbursts of delight. But his first struggling attempts to set down this world of nature met with little popular success. Ever self-doubting, Burchfield decided to turn to realistic paintings of the world...
...parochial schools: "I think Catholic parochial schools are doing a disservice to the Catholics who go to them...I am against Jewish parochial schools. To train people separately is segregation." On U.S. Roman Catholics: "The Irish Catholic is not like the Latin Catholic. When you get Irish Catholicism overlaid with Puritanism, as in New England, you get an attitude toward censorship that would never be held by the Catholics in New Orleans. But too many people pin this censorship on the Catholic Church as a whole...