Word: schoolrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THIS IS THE SCHOOLROOM-Nicholas Monsarrat-Knopf...
This Is the Schoolroom, in short, is one more of those novels in which a young man tells of his education, his quest for a meaning and a course in life. If the young man is intelligent enough or alive enough, such a story can have extraordinary power and significance. Since Marcus Hendrycks is not, his tale is rather a social document than a work of thought...
...rough-cut, reverent set of lyrics, they skimmed the Lincoln legend from hollow-log cradle to resurrection, not missing the Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which Abe's words "flashed home like singing bullets, Steve's jumped fence like frisky pullets." Liveliest lines: on an apocryphal schoolroom spelling bee in which Abe Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge headed opposing teams. The spelldown...