Word: stoutheartedness
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THE DOOMED OASIS, by Hammond Innes (314 pp.; Knopf; $3.95), is a stouthearted attempt to win back the desert from the venery-in-Araby school-Paul Bowles and Frederic Prokosch-and return it to the unperfumed condition described by that old camel trammeler, Foreign Legion Novelist Percival Christopher (Beau Geste...
Withering Fruit. The decline of the sense of responsibility within "our general economic life" has led to a "lack of truly responsible leadership, both on the part of management and of labor." Internationally, a similar decline is shown by the feeling that "adherence to the United Nations absolves us from...
"It Fits, It Fits." To younger generations, who hummed and danced through the '40s and '50s in the amiable glow of Rodgers and Hammerstein, it sometimes came as a surprise that Hammerstein had an earlier, equally prodigious career in the operettas of the '20s. Son of Variety...
When Hussein got back home from his tour, he listened with a heavy heart to the torrent of complaints about his brother -Mohammed badgering newspaper editors to put his picture on the front page, Mohammed phoning the radio station to play again and again his favorite tunes, Mohammed threatening physical...
Stouthearted TV viewers have watched 1) alleged stomach acid rot a pocket handkerchiei, 2) elderly couples kissing while an announcement reassured the lovers that a special cleanser would keep their dentures pure, 3) corns the size of pumpkins pried out of plaster toes that could belong to the Colossus of...