Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a climactic murder, cross-examination and an impassive criminal that rivals any fast-moving courtroom scene in a modern play. On the whole, "Hostile valley" does not aim at any particular effect. Writing casually, the author creates his atmosphere, sketches in his characters, works them into a simple plot that can include his murder mystery denouncement and thus aims to strike upon at least one element that will held the interest of the average reader...
...best possible solution to have a meeting in Cambridge each spring of the schools representatives to whom some authority would hold forth expounding any changes since the last meeting, and generally refreshing their information. These men would have no trouble in correlating this information with their own particular problems, and could thus give up-to-date information to their graduating class. Certainly the enlarged course booklet should be added for the benefit of any schools whose representatives were unable to attend, the staff of advisers should be purged, and, if possible another day should be found in the fall...
...left to the politicians sided by clerks to do their bidding. The fellowship that has just been warded points the way towards the creation of a system which will provide the civil service with men specially trained, for responsible positions. Studying intensively for a year in preparation for some particular branch of public service and then working for another year in the field under the guidance of an expect, the fellowship holder is more adequately prepared to enter the civil service than those who apply for the positions without any training or special ability...
Walter D. Edmonds has long been one of these remaining local colorists, choosing as his particular field the Erie Canal section of New York State and the life of that district. His first attempt "Rome Haul" won him fame shortly after he graduated from Harvard. This latest book is a collection of short stories which he has been writing since undergraduate days on The Advocate. The stories, like all local color products are merely tales of anecdotes and legends of the life on the canal. And as is usual in works of this type, if you have read...
...book stands, though, it is an enjoyable anthology of stories of the Canal and the people who plied is waters. It covers a particular field which heretofore has received little notice, and adds another chapter to the ever growing literature of America. One cannot help but have the feeling though, that the book really belongs back in the early seventies and eighties along with the rest of that school which did so much to acquaint America with herself. And yet one has the feeling that Granville Hicks was right: the school is one which has disappeared from our literature...