Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mannie's character is unfortunately undeveloped thus far; Joanna, ignorant of Chopper's past relations with Mannie, seems unduly and too suddenly horrified by the cat's screech; and the southern lingo seems unnecessary because any director knows how white trash talks without Kopit's telling him. But the play moves quickly and convincingly, perhaps as an aping of Williams, but not without its own vigor...
While teaching at the University, Wilson expects to put his book into final form. It has been his experience in the past "that students' questions and opinions are a great help in determining some of the things I should...
Johnson spaced five Tech hits and permitted only three baserunners to advance past first. He walked one and struck out three...
...traveling New York security analysts were looking for cheaper buys than exist in the booming U.S. stock market. Though European prices have risen sharply in the past six months, stock yields are still higher and price-earnings ratios lower than in the U.S. The analysts found plenty of reasons why U.S. investors need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books...
Flawed and fragile early novels are often like youthful snapshots: a source of faint discomfort to the author, a delight to the doting fan, and a revealing glimpse into the past. Two such novels have now been issued in the U.S., one by Nancy Mitford, the British author (Love in a Cold Climate) who hates Americans, and the other by Christopher Isherwood, the British author (Prater Violet) who became one. The first is worth noting because of the surprisingly naive notions of its adult author, the second because it marks the jumping-off point in a talented young writer...