Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAILWAY POLICE AND THE LAST TROLLEY RIDE by Hortense Calisher. 248 pages. Little, Brown...
...Last Trolley Ride, though longer, is hardly more substantial. In upstate New York, the orphaned sisters Lottie and Emily Pardee fry fritters in the bay window of their home. The sizzle attracts Jim Eck, who was born on a canal barge, and Jim's "war buddy," Jim Morgan. After a last ride on the trolley line, which is being shut down, these four marry. The trolley line is kept running in miniature in somebody's basement, and subsequently it is sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
What had begun inauspiciously was finally turning out to be great fun, and, to prove the point, Jackie decided to stay an extra day before departing for Madrid and thence to the U.S. "To visit Seville and not ride horseback at the fair is equal to not coming at all," she declared. Whereupon, donning the traditional traje corto (black-trimmed red jacket, flowing chaps, flat broad-brimmed hat), she mounted a white horse and made a leisurely paseo of the fair. "I don't know what I'm doing," Jackie laughed, belying her superb equipoise...
Besides this Munro also added a new ride to the Crimson's defense. This play enables a ball out to stop the opposing team from clearing the ball out of the defensive zone--sort of an anti-clear...
...books describe is the world Eliot called the waste land and Yeats described as a "mere anarchy" in which "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity." Waugh's people are the Bright Young Things of London's high society, people who ride to hounds while the world is going to the dogs. Waugh loathes them because they have betrayed the aristocratic ethos, and he depicts the society they dominate as a moral chaos, a twittering world in which bored women leave their husbands for men they do not even like, mothers regret...