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Although his stories are set in Ireland, and his characters say "Begor" rather than "Good Lord," O'Conner's nationalism merely adds spice to the staple of universality that marks his characters and situations. Money and sex, religion and childhood are the problems with which he confronts his people. And they either solve them or they do not, depending on their personality which has been presented more or less explicitly. For example, in a story called Masculine Protest, a boy runs away from home after a quarrel with his mother and returns the next day. Yet he has solved...
...Spice of Life. In Emeryville, Calif., Patrolman Leo Neuberger, rebuked for riding in his patrol car 20 blocks away from his beat, explained to superiors: "This town is so small you get tired going around in circles...
...whatever she did, she remained well-bred." Russian to the core, Isabelle was prone to cries and lamentations which she often expressed in admirable prose. She explained: "Why do I prefer nomads to villagers, beggars to rich people? Aie yie yie! for me, unhappiness is a sort of spice ... I love the knout!" To Author Blanch, Isabelle Eberhardt represents the "blessed annihilation of self," the woman "free of all the little deadly fetters of everyday life...
...Architect Edwin Lutyens. (She is now 80 and edited the letters herself.) To read A Blessed Girl is to understand the why and wherefore of the Victorian novel, with its passion for brazen scoundrels, innocent girls and rescuing heroes. Such conflicts were not mere fiction; they were the very spice of Victorian life. Emily herself found it hard to decide whether her reaction to her tragedy was "happiness or misery," but her mother, respectable Lady Lytton, was not undecided at all. Wrote Emily: she was "bitterly disappointed that it has all come to nothing and is dying to bring...
Clary Multiplier, a latecomer (1946) in the hotly competitive adding-machine business, found that its sales ($12,302,975 last year) were slipping. The company started a paid-vacation contest for division managers, then threw in the quiz to "spice up the program." The names of salesmen's wives who wish to enter the contest are written on cards, and each week four cards are drawn from a hopper. President Hugh Clary, or some other executive, then phones the wife and asks her how much business her husband has brought in so far that month. If she knows...