Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high as it sounds, since in Britain it means only 30% of the stock's par value ($2.80), not its market value...
...style, though often brilliant and always interesting, is all too frequently downright bad." After quoting several horrible examples he complains of the "overelaborate sentence structure"; this complaint, by the way, is in a column of type consisting of five of his own sentences, of median length 67 words--par in any company. But he goes on to develope the positive thesis that Faulkner's writing is often remarkably effective from an abstract technical viewpoint...
BARABBAS (180 pp.)-Par Lagerkvisf -Random House...
Under such pressures, the Filipino economy began to crumble. In the Hong Kong open market the peso fell from two for $1 (par) to four for $1. Most schoolteachers and many soldiers did not get paid regularly. Unable to find work in the cities or make a decent living on the land, more & more Filipinos took to the hills of Luzon, to join the Huks. Once the admired guerrilla army that had fought the hated Japanese, the Huks had been taken over by the Communists. As discontent grew, the Huks grew with...
This year's Nobel Prize for literature* went to Par Lagerkvist, 60, member of the Swedish Academy that awards the prize, a versatile writer who has turned out more than 20 books in the past 40 years. His latest novel: Barabbas recently published...