Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scholars & Gentlemen. Whatever the answer, English educators expect that more & more boys from the state schools are going to crash the hallowed gates of the public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part of the school as its rich educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change...
Still insisting that she loved her husband, Joyce decided that she had to part from him forever to get her health back. Refusing to charge mental cruelty ("He was a fine boy and a wonderful husband"), she sued for divorce on the ground that she was allergic to her husband. In Los Angeles, Superior Judge Ray Brockmann was afraid that to grant a divorce on such a ground would set a ticklish precedent...
...headlines identifying Negroes with violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT TO PRIMARY VOTE UPHELD. Irrelevant: NEGRO ACCUSES WIFE OF STOVE-THROWING. Some Northern newspapers might copy...
...work of [a] magician!" cries the madman, and in that moment, almost before Cervantes appears to know it, Don Quixote's comical quest becomes also the serious search for what is real behind the appearances of this world. The search leads him, at the end of Part One, to a cage in which, like a wild animal, he is shipped home...
Death in Defeat. Part One is carelessly constructed, uncertain of intention, saved from collapse only by the author's endless wit and invention. Part Two, completed ten years later, shows Cervantes as absolute master of his matter, his manner and his man. Don Quixote makes a manifesto out of his guiding conviction: "Leave it to God, and everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived...