Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worldwide audience of 20 million readers; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Hampton Court, England. Writing of swirling aerial duels between Biggies' Sopwith Camel and les boches was second nature to Johns, since he had tangled with them himself during the war, was shot down, captured and twice escaped. That stiff-upper-lip quality endured-as one government official learned during a recent inquiry of the captain. Could Biggies be given a few socialist characteristics in order to help the Labor Party? "Of course I refused," Johns snorted. "Bigles has no politics. The damned cheek...
...Stiff Upper Lip, by Gallant...
Pity the British executive. He has had to keep his upper lip stiff against the problems of the pound, a prohibitive investment income tax, Common Market blackballs and Prime Minister Harold Wilson's accusation of "sheer damn laziness." Now comes a study showing that for all his pains, the British executive is paid at a level that is far and away the lowest in Europe...
...whole, his tales seem to be a process of working through to the point, of justifying the rounded resolutions that he pats into place at the end. In the long, superb title story, a woman's grief at her husband's death seems at first as stiff and arid as their marriage was. Then she finds that her real grief consists of a series of discoveries about herself, notably the fact that she harbors a lesbian passion. Finally she draws back from contemplation of "last things"-death, ultimate commitments-and finds a practical way to go on living...
After the Yale Race, the Harvard Senior Varsity will choose four of its oarsmen to enter the four-with-cox class at the Olympic trials. Stiff competition can be expected from the so called Olympic Development Clinics located at M.I.T. in the East, and Seattle, Wash., in the West. Sterner challenges, however, will probably grow out of the losing eights, which will split up to try to take the four-with-cox berth...