Word: sheaf
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Returning from Jamaica, I have just seen TIME's Nov. 10 review of my book Leyte. Of all the sheaf of reviews awaiting me on my desk, this stands out as the one which grasps what I was trying to do, and which, moreover, says that I did it. No wonder I am pleased...
...POEMS, by e. e. cummings. The perennial Pan of U.S. poetry, still mildly addicted to typographical high jinks, proves in his latest sheaf of poems that he is as fresh, vivid and strangely lyrical as ever...
...late afternoon Faubus was ready to announce his plans. At 4:25 an aide left the Governor's office, filed with the secretary of state a sheaf of anti-integration laws enacted by the legislature at the Governor's behest; Orval Faubus had been keeping them on his desk for two weeks. Now, freshly signed, they had the power of law. Then he called in the press and read his announcement in a flat, tense voice: "Acting under the powers and responsibilities imposed upon me by these laws, I have ordered closed the senior high schools of Little...
...nature what the psychological men call a "moody" fellow, O'Neill could scarcely have felt much warmth from the flames. As anyone who has appreciated Joan of Arc knows, fire does have its mystical aspects, and with the help of ever-solicitous Carlotta, O'Neill sat up, grasped a sheaf of papers in his palsied hands and thrust it to the flames. No telling what was in the five plays so carefully dispatched by the man who made them; O'Neill considered the stuff worthless. He certainly fixed the scholars probing his socioneuro-anthropologic motives that...
...deity, which is a thing called history-but before the divinity of Jesus. This helps to explain why Doctor Zhivago, the greatest Russian novel since the Revolution, will not be read in Russia. The poem is attributed to the novel's hero, who supposedly leaves it with a sheaf of other verse as his legacy, but it plainly speaks for Pasternak and his gentle genius...