Word: slices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minds of its inmates. Sordid sights and sounds abound, but Novelist Kesey has not descended to mere shock treatment or isolation-ward documentary. His book is a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil, despite its macabre setting. For as the boardinghouse provided a stock slice-of-life locale for another generation of writers, the sanitarium seems to appeal to many modern writers as a comparable microcosm of the times...
...Square is the 1945 version of Meet Me in St. Louis, with Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Leon Ames, Marjory Main, Chill Wills, and other greats. The color is bilious, the sentimentality sickening, and the acting, for the most part, godawful. But Meet Me in St. Louis is a slice of history. The young Judy Garland is every bit as wonderful as the mature version, and the portrayal of the St. Louis of the early 1900's is strangely touching. As a boy in St. Louis, I was brought up on such songs as "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis...
...girth of the earth came bad news. One of the rockets had given too much push, and Ranger III was moving too fast. Instead of streaking toward the moon at the proper speed of 24,500 m.p.h., it was moving at more than 25,000 m.p.h. It would slice through the moon's orbit in 55 hours instead of 66 as planned. And at that time, the moon would not be there; Ranger III would miss by nearly 25,000 miles (see diagram...
...Save the Plowboy? is a slice-of-life play, but in its spare and honest intensity it slices close to the center...
...power to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936, even though Winston Churchill, among others, felt that Hitler could have been easily stopped and probably toppled from power. At Munich, writes Taylor, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saved the peace and served the principle of self-determination, i.e., by handing a slice of Czechoslovakia to Germany because a lot of Germans lived there. Writes Taylor: "It was a triumph of all that was best and most enlightened in British life...