Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bands of itinerant troubadors warbling carols and a short recorder concert will sustain the medieval theme of the evening during the supper which 500 undergraduates are scheduled to attend...
...addition voters must mark A, B, and C before the names of their choices for the three Class Marshall posts. Short biographies of each candidate will be included on the ballot form, and the ballot boxes will be sealed to prevent confusion...
Bush Christmas is the story of four white Australian children and one black one who set out, under pretense of a short camping trip, to trail a gang of horse thieves. The youngsters follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse...
...remember the glorious old rip of a character actor (Music Hall Veteran Will Fyffe) and the glorious black villain of a dog in the first version (the British To the Victor, 1938) will find the new picture comparatively genteel. But its very best audience, after all, has a short memory...
...nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches of Catholic clergy in Prince of Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow...