Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Demanding the floor, young, hulking Le Pen announced: "I am going to remind you of some of the rights which you may have forgotten," and began reciting the French constitution. Communists hooted, thumped their desks, and Le Pen read on. Expelled from the tribune by President Le Troquer, Le Pen yielded the floor to "the second of my 52 comrades." "This is sabotage," moaned a Deputy...
...into the office. Apart from the great Figg feature, the Informer also gives some coverage to a British scientist who is suspected of having decamped Eastward with his nation's newest secret war weapon-electric eels. Another informative Informer expose concerns a movement called Ethical Recreation (which may remind some readers of Moral Re-Armament); its leader, Dr. Sloper, ministers chiefly to the rich, since "the poor are always Christian, they can't afford to be anything else...
...escape the sonsofbitches and the only choice you got is between sonsofbitches." Does the Hemingway manner work? Paraphrasing the remark Churchill is supposed to have made to his son Randolph ("Haven't you learned yet that I put more into my speeches than brandy?"), Papa Hemingway might well remind young (30) Novelist Hoffman that more goes into a Hemingway novel than just barrack-room talk...
GLENPORT, ILLINOIS, by Paul Darcy Boles (424 pp.; Mocm/7/on; $4.95), may remind readers that oldtime dispensers of sweetness and light like Gene Stratton Porter (A Girl of the Limberlost) and Grace Livingston Hill (Rainbow Cottage, Happiness Hill) at least put heart into their hokum. Paul Darcy Boles merely puts hokum into the heart. The Grayleafs are newcomers to Glenport, 111., a whistle stop near Chicago. It is 1929, and Ave Grayleaf, the father, is a baker, as busy and happy as all the seven dwarfs. Homespun Ave has the American flag tattooed on his right arm and a bad case...
...Since then it has suffered a kind of honorable obsolescence. Sibelius' last major work was published in 1926, when he was 61. Most of today's critics, finding they have nothing new to say about the music, simply muse about those tough, craggy Sibelius characteristics that remind people of Finland...