Word: styles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his triumph of India, Ike moved on to Teheran, where for six chilly hours (28°) the Shah of Iran was his host. The Shah turned out some splendid Persian-style opulence for the visiting American: beautiful rugs were laid on the streets under ceremonial arches and along the final 200 yards of the route to the Shah's marble palace. After lunch with the Shah, Ike told the Iranian Parliament: "I well know you and the people of Iran are not standing on the sidelines in this struggle [for peace among nations]. Without flinching, you have borne...
...again in Theirs Be the Guilt, a re-edit of Manassas, which he wrote 56 years ago. Sinclair, then 24, was living in two tents near Princeton, NJ. and doing research from books hauled from the university library in a rented horse and buggy. Years have left the innocent style intact-a genuine fustian or homespun purple-as well as the sentimentality, which would shame Dickens for a cynic. Thus the novel is not only a publishing oddity but it gives a rare picture of how the most tragic event in U.S. history looked to a generation three or four...
SPINSTER, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A flashing original both in style and subject by a New Zealand schoolmistress who writes about her calling with a beautiful sense of mission...
...ELIOT, by Angus Wilson. The freshly widowed heroine tries to find a career and a woman's card of identity; all she seems to turn up is welfare-state boredom and ineffectually Angry Young Men, many of whom are not men at all. Author Wilson, his fine style dipped in malice, deftly destroys whole chunks of English society...
...Hart ( 1 ) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (2) 4. The Status Seekers, Packard (3) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (7) 6. For 2? Plain, Golden (5) 7. The Longest Day, Ryan (10) 8. The Joy of Music, Bernstein 9. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (6) 10. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson