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...paid only £20 for his first book. He was immobilized by gout, but the fancy cooking of his wife, plain Jessie George, says Author Jean-Aubry in a very French aside, made things bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal pilot), but in the end his work was recognized for what it was?amid the sentimental afterglow of the Victorian Age, only he and Thomas Hardy spoke with the cold, severe voice of tragedy...
...them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel is peculiarly fascinating for its creation of a new war generation in print, a kind of fighting man who could go into combat spouting bop talk, read the plays of Sophocles between barrages, and sniff heroin for kicks when away from the MLR (Main Line of Resistance...
With the delicate, fragrantly bland character of a pot of jasmine tea (which isn't everybody's dish), India's exotic Nehru poured himself-rosebud and all -into the nation's teacup, there for all to sniff and sip. After leaving Ike, he drove to the National Press Club to face Washington's tough newsmen, was introduced irreverently as "the mystical man in the middle." His 45-minute performance was admirable: deft, quiet, elusive, charming, and at times, productive: Items...
...during most of the primaries, stayed with him through the Democratic Convention in Chicago and picked him up again in the initial phase of his vice presidential campaign. While keeping pace with one of the most tireless campaigners the U.S. has ever known, Connery managed to find time to sniff out side stories and to interview the owners of the hands that shook The Hand...
...barn and puts a bullet through his brain. Ella, a younger sister and her mother have moved to a nearby small town and taken Joe's infant sons with them. But tragedy has not softened mamma. Her nose comes out of the Old Testament only to sniff disapprovingly, and Ella's fun is limited to sneak meetings with a minister's daughter where they flirt with the devil by eating forbidden candy...