Word: shuting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generous wit--are, like Shakespeare's standards, centered in that purest of human pleasures, a garden, this one the size of shire, and tended until her recent death by the softly malicious and completely delightful Angela Thirkell. Those writers intelligent enough to acknowledge Mrs. Thirkell's leadership (like Nevil Shute and 'Miss Read') have always enjoyed the quiet success their sound judgment deserved; those rebellious Angries (like John Braine, John Wain and that lot) who have ignored her example have inevitably become eminently unreadable. Their prose becomes barren, sluggish and didactic; their characters tedious; and their plots angular or absurd...
...Lampedusa (2)* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (3) 3. Hawaii, Michener (1) 4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4) 5. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 6. The Affair, Snow (5) 7. Water of Life, Robinson (7) 8. The Constant Image, Davenport (8) 9. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute 10. Clea, Durrell NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 2. Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (6) 6. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market...
...Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute...
...Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute...
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (2) 3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3) 4. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (6) 5. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 6. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (7) 7. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5) 8. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan (8) 9. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 10. The Affair, Snow