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Others who took sober second readings recognized, in the words of London's Spectator, "that the Americans did not go it alone; we have. The [British] government decided that the Anglo-American alliance was something that could be switched off like a tap. Almost immediately it got thirsty and tried to switch it on again. Finding it could not do so, it has been relieving its feelings by kicking...
Marcelino was an easy child to love. His clear young voice splashed like April sunlight on the sober stones, on the serious monks, and it put new life in them. They even changed their names to suit his fancy, and soon were quite unconsciously calling each other Brother Door, Brother Bad. Brother Cookie. Brother Ding-Dong. The monks also learned, as people with children generally do, that new lives bring new sorrows with them. One day. when he was five years old. Marcelino saw a woman for the first time, a country wife. She told him that...
...took the opening of the West away from the cliché specialists with The Big Sky, a knowing, realistic book about the early traders, trappers and scouts that was as unashamedly rich in poetic evocation as it was in gritty plain talk. In 1949 came The Way West, a sober but richly authentic account of the great migration by wagon to the Pacific coast. Guthrie's new book, These Thousand Hills, again justifies the literary claim he has staked out in that vast country, but it also shows that when a novelist sets a Western hero on a horse...
...Rough. In Wayne. N.J.. despite his explanation that he was sober and merely lost. Jesse Abraham was jugged on a 30-day drunken driving rap after police found him motoring on the Passaic County golf course...
...about Yale weekend, except remember that old adage about weekends: The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Yale, like Christmas, comes but once a year, and similarly would be nothing without its "spirit." The spirit is compulsory, but the spirits are limited. The unfortunate necessity of remaining cold sober because one's date is so important makes the day insufferable...