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...squatter community, called Poor Boy, and follows the dreamy, hard-drinking career of a onetime highly-paid war worker, called Spence Douthit, who amiably man ages to resist every attempted reform -including his own delinquent daughter's. Caldwell's characters, as usual, outrage every decent instinct and stir every other kind...
...other acts of mob violence. Barefoot carabinieri flunkied for Allied officers. Once they had been traditional symbols of legality and order. Now they were simple absurdities. But the mobs had not coalesced into a movement. Most Italians were too preoccupied with keeping alive, or too weak from hunger to stir...
...roommate caused the stir of the evening when he showed up with five (not two or three like any sane polygamist--but five) young ladies. He danced with each one in her rightful turn. We later interviewed the young ladies and asked what's the story...
From 176,000 entries the Imperial Rule Assistance Association chose as a slogan to stir Japanese fighting forces now in their eighth year of war: Iki, Waki, Konki, Sookekki (spirit, harmony, stamina, total action...
...Skeleton Key is likely to be of help to readers of Joyce. It is also likely to stir up plenty of controversy. James Joyce's theme and dreams are usually so elaborately interwoven that even the most prominent incidents and characters invite multiple interpretations. "Indeed," conclude the authors, "the baffling obscurity of Finnegans Wake may be due to [Joyce's] determination to muddy the track of his narrative with a thousand collateral imprints, lest we trace him to the scene of his own life secret, which he yet describes in compulsive half-revelation." Campbell and Robinson offer...