Word: rying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Over the years, it has committed some notable omissions, including Tolstoy, Strindberg, Proust, Valéry, Joyce...
SAINT-EXUPÉRY (330 pp.) - Marcel Migeo-McGraw-Hill...
...grouchy skeptics who asked whether the machine age had given the human race anything except autos and creeping concrete, air conditioning and smog. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had an impassioned answer. Man's great new gift was the earth, seen from the air. "Saint-Ex" despised the age, but accepted its gift with a mystical joy. He reacted to flight as Coleridge did to opium, with occasionally calamitous results, and wrote of the air-in Night Flight, Flight to Arras and Wind, Sand and Stars-better than anyone since...