Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual reward for 50 weeks of drudgery as a Manhattan stenographer. They quarrel, make up, and fall in love. The incidents of their romance are pathetically meagre-dances to the music of the camp band, a brief mutual inspection of the moon, a single excursion by canoe to Eagle Rock. Behind these incidents, imprinted with the devastating clarity of a picture-post card, is an animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp's recreational director, the oily friendliness...
...BRIGHTON ROCK - Graham Greene - Viking...
...best, Brighton Rock, a psychological gangster novel, creates an atmosphere as sinister as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; at its worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition...
...heard of "free press"- maybe they think "suppress" is the American way. Will thank Hancock and Browder's ancestors for our Bill of Rights, say I. No I'm not a descendant of a coupla Mayflower Pilgrims but my people were waiting for 'em at Plymouth Rock, when they landed...
...Rock Island...