Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scramble for control of 30 statehouses ended with an almost even split between the two parties (including the Democrats' gubernatorial victory in Maine in September). In some states, the out come was baffling enough to send a stream of crystal balls hurtling into the political junkpile-there to be joined by many a bewildered seer. Items...
...suit her. Lowney moves him along to "skits." What about? "A bird, a dog. a boy. a tree." Out of these literary acorns, feels Lowney. giant novels may grow. "I mark them and I write ideas all along the margins where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through that book line...
...intellectual landscape created by French Novelist Boulle, the most interesting sight is a special stream of Gallic irony. His heroes drown in it before the reader's eyes, but even as they go down it is obvious that they all know how to swim. In The Bridge Over the River Kwai it was a British colonel whose fight for honor gave aid and comfort to the Japanese. In Not the Glory, it was a German spy whose best efforts aided the British. In his new novel, laid in a sleepy Provencal town among ordinary people...
Author Gordimer's talent is diamond-hard and diamond-bright, her craftsmanship impeccable. But the stream of life rarely flows recklessly through her pages; it is banked, locked and graded like a smoothly run canal...
...argued that a defense force in such periods should be primarily a professional, highly skilled force, not dependent on a constant stream of raw recruits brought in, unwilling, for two years of training that rapid technological change may make obsolete. Defense department figures, which show a much higher rate of enlistment and re-enlistment in recent years may indicate the possibility of ending the draft. But they may also indicate nothing. The compulsion of the draft, President Eisenhower has said, is a big factor in these enlistments. It must be kept as an inducement...