Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination two weeks ago on the road from Béit Meri and was irate at the rebels' continued holdout, tendered his resignation, but President Chamoun refused it. Puffing worriedly on a hubble-bubble water pipe, Solh told newsmen that he could have been butchered as was Iraq's Nuri asSaid "if the American forces had been 24 hours late." He went on: "The rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup...
Lusty Beat-Generation Novelist Jack (On the Road) Kerouac, who writes as if the punctuation keys were filed from his typewriter, let readers of the avant-garde Evergreen Review in on how he does it. His methods for "spontaneous prose": "No periods separating sentence structures already arbitrarily riddled by false colons and timid usually needless commas-but the vigorous space dash separating rhetorical breathing (as jazz musicians drawing breath between outblown phrases). No pause to think of proper word but the infantile pileup of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained. If possible write 'without consciousness' in semi...
...board of directors tapped the company's West Coast boss, Frederick W. Ackerman, 63, one of the lifelong busmen who had been passed over in favor of Genet in 1955. Ackerman knows that his toughest chore will be to put Greyhound Rent-A-Car on the road. "It has been a headache because of mistakes," says he. "We tried to do too much in too short a period without experience and competent...
...ROAD TO WIGAN PIER (264 pp.)-George Orwell - Harcourt, Brace...
George Orwell was a pilgrim who hated progress and found an empty shrine at the end of a blind alley called socialism. Famed British Critic V.S. Pritchett has called him "the conscience of his generation." An extremely troubled conscience it was, and Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier does much to explain...