Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week) 2. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (2) 3. The Man, Wallace (3) 4.This Rough Magic, Stewart (8) 5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (4) 6.You Only Live Twice, Fleming (6) 7. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Lecarr (7) 8. Julian, Vidal (5) 9. Armageddon, Uris (9) 10. A Kind of 10. A Kind of Anger, Ambler...
...This Rough Magic, Stewart...
Adlai Stevenson, who doesn't get worked up very often, had carefully written the speech, overruled the doubts of some of his aides ("Should we be so rough?"), and sent the words flying like stinging chips of wood across the Security Council's horseshoe table. He had reason to be angry; in both Council and Assembly, the Africans' irrational and insulting language had poured forth, supposedly in support of a complaint to the Council that the Stanleyville rescue operation had been an act of "aggression" and "intervention...
...bogey 8 in the process, and blowing the 1962 U.S. Open. Arnie Palmer ought to be a cinch for a Master Mariner's badge after the six strokes he took in the surf and rocks off Pebble Beach, Calif., last January. And how about a Diamond in the Rough for Bobby Nichols, who drove into the rough on nine out of 18 holes at this year's P.G.A. Championship, hit a tree and three traps, still scored a 69 for the round, and won the tournament? One thing, though, about Golfs team: it is the richest All-America...
...throws a capful of water in her face. When Caron slaps him, he lets her have it too. When Trevor Howard informs him that the island has a hidden treasure-trove of good Scotch whisky, Grant starts pawing the turf like Pavlov's dog. His engaging brand of rough-house finally proves a point that was never seriously in doubt in the first place. Scrub the style and polish off Cary Grant, and what do you find? The real polish underneath...