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Last week, in the first volume of another series of novels, the O'Neill's were shown occupying the centre of the same grim stage that the Lonigans recently vacated. Although they are poorer than the Lonigans, they are much like them in temperament: a quarreling, short-tempered, superstitious crew, constantly fighting among themselves and lapsing into dreamy reveries, the men regularly going on the wagon and as regularly falling off, the women snarling at the children, cursing the men, slandering each other. Consequently, while A World I Never Made does not deepen or add perspective to James...
...stricken masses they describe belonged to some savage tribe heretofore unknown, the authors solemnly state that "their novel deals only with one seam in the crowded life of the Empire's second city." They add that Glasgow is making a determined effort "to rehouse and to help its poorer citizens." After picturing stables that would tax the strength of a dozen Hercules, they end their book with a vague reference to "preachers and social workers" who entered the wilderness of Gorbols, improved conditions so much that desperadoes like Johnnie Stark could no longer flourish there...
...into the bureau office with me my mother drove our car around the block once, because she was unable to park. When she drove up in front of the office again, my father and I were wait ing for her and I was a full-fledged Indiana driver, 50? poorer. It took me a grand total of live minutes to acquire my license and I was asked only one question: "Have you ever, in any State, been issued a driving permit?" My answer was "No." Please tell me when that 20 hours a semester of highschool instruction requirement came into...
Last week the doctors at Coronado feared that this proposal would become law. They foresaw more financial troubles for private hospitals and for themselves, poorer medical service by & large for the State's inhabitants. But they could agree on no procedure to avert the blow...
...concentrators' opinion that the department is the poorer for a lack of a group of outstanding elder men is important, but not sufficient cause for real concern. First, however regrettable such a lack, it is a fact, which could only be corrected by the importation of a number of men from the outside--a solution impractical for financial reasons. Second, the paucity of elder men of recognized stature is considerably compensated for by the further finding of the students that the department is fortunate in its number of younger men who combine to a gratifying extent the qualities of both...