Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Translator Sir: Yasunari Kawabata's award of the Nobel Prize for literature [Oct. 25] could not be more deserving. His Snow Country is a book to read, reread and to treasure. But it can be read only in English by most of us, and I strongly suspect that the beautiful translation by Edward G. Seidensticker, which makes this possible, may have played a large part in attracting the attention of the panel. Your excellent article is lacking only in that it does not quote from his introduction to Snow Country: "In Snow Country we come upon the roaring silence...
During the afternoon, he drove eleven miles to nearby Buffalo, dropped off a blue suit at a cleaner's shop and sipped a cup of hot chocolate at a local grill. That evening, the Humphreys drove through flurrying snow to his headquarters in Minneapolis...
...skiers, snow is white gold. Until it falls, they are a frustrated lot, all booted up, geared, waxed, with nowhere to go. Some skiers have tried to get in condition early by skiing on sand, pine needles or hay ? all far from satisfactory...
Like all totalitarian regimes, the Soviet Union attempts to seize and shape the minds of its young at an early, formative stage. For the group between the ages of 14 and 28, the instrument to that end is the Communist Youth League, or the Komsomol. Last week, as early snow and biting cold embraced Moscow, thousands of Komsomoltsy marched through the capital to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their organization and to pledge, amid red banners and slogans, unsparing efforts in the struggle for Communism...
...reason I dislike speaking about it." The pair will probably never be untangled, intellectually or emotionally, They were, it seems, two great friends who also happened to be as father and son. One imagines them wandering into the Square after a mug or two at the Wursthaus, kicking at snow drifts, and frightening couples with high-spirited shouts, pausing to test each other's memory of obscure verses. It is only speculation, but perhaps in the end they were held together by their refusal to become the mute weighers of evidence that a proprietous respect for their profession demanded they...