Word: sargeants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though The Widower's Sons falls far short of that earlier mark, it still captures the individual class-struggle that is Sillitoe's strength. His latest book deals with William Scorton, a sargeant major's son, who through relentless work and discipline, rises to the rank of colonel and marries a brigadier's daughter. England's Great Depression era army becomes his life, starting when his widowed father drills him in cartography at the age of seven and ending with the disintegration of his civilian marriage over 30 years later...
William's relationship with his father compensates for this weakness. The sargeant-major joined the army after surviving a coal mine accident in which his best friend slowly died. After campaigns in India, Africa and Europe, he comes back to his mining town still practicing army life. As is so often the case of frustrated fathers, he channels his ambitions into his son, determined he will learn trigonometry in order to be a gunnery officer and French in order to be a gentleman. Sillitoe's literary talents are fitted to this type of relationship...
...Sargeant Cheever '32, director of admissions at Harvard Medical School, described the current situation as "anomalous. There are about 8000 foreigners allowed into this country annually. We have quite enough doctors of our own to go around. I think it's a bit unfair," he said yesterday...
...giveaway of panties made of licorice and gelatin drew a large crowd which attracted the attention of a Cambridge police officer, the spokesman said. Cambridge Police Sargeant Harold F. Murphy yesterday called the distribution of the candy a "publicity stunt." "He was distributing things that would cost him $3," he said...
...classroom for years. I felt presumptuous; these were adult lives I was confronting, not data, and their faces told me more than I wanted to know as glimmers of interest struggled across features usually stolid, blown out, confused, or pugnacious because of the Blackboard, the Teacher, the Drill Sargeant, the Foreman. For me, that night the niceties of clinical description blurred into the broad strokes of oppression...