Word: sanson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers can provide. Fallaw gives us exhaustive and often confusing detail: "I go under his arm over my head;" "rising and making two medium steps, he pushed shut the door;" "touching the strings with his right forefinger." The protagonist, anonymous for 800 words, suddenly and confusingly becomes "Rip Sanson." There is also some pretty unidiomatic dialogue ("'What say to a good idea, Toby?' Rip kidded him") and this is a story so dry and ascetic that the reader must seek his pleasure in the rendering of realistic detail...
...subsidiaries At a special luncheon in Paris, the creme de la creme of France's business leaders listened last week to dire predictions that their country may be over run by an "invasion" of powerful U S corporations, whose investment there has risen to $1.2 billion. Said Rene Sanson of the National Assembly's finance commission: "The potential of the U S scares...