Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Communist general secretary of Britain's non-Communist coal miners' union is a twittery little Welshman named Arthur Horner. At 12 he was a wobbler (the boy who lathers customers' faces in barbershops); in his teens, he was a Baptist preacher, calling on the coalowners to...
The Courtesan. Gospel references to Mary Magdalene are fragmentary. Although she is mentioned by name twelve times, there are few details given about her life or her significance as one of Christ's followers. Bruckberger holds to the view of most Roman Catholic scholars that she is mentioned elsewhere...
Perhaps best of all is V. S. Pritchett's thoroughly lighthearted, thoroughly post-Freud A Story of Don Juan, which tells how Don Juan once visited Quintero, a man whose wife had died on their wedding night. To punish Juan for his sins, Quintero tucks him into the haunted...
This became apparent soon after the election. Brownell (with Lucius Clay) became the chief Ike adviser on appointments. As would be expected from Brownell's character and wide knowledge, the appointments were good, but some of them were not handled with political astuteness. He let the appointments of Ohio...
The Fifth Season (by Sylvia Regan) has to do with Manhattan's garment industry. So does the title: on Seventh Avenue there are five seasons-spring, summer, fall, winter and slack. In Miss Regan's farce, things are slack to start with and touch & go all the way...