Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final two stories represent the most obvious and most used type of humor distortion of events or other literature. Norman Pettit's Island Sunset is. I think a satire on Hemingway's style. Petit uses the same short action packed sentences to build and atmosphere which would not be out of place in a Hemingway work. It is however very easy to imitate Hemingway's style without touching his character and plot development and that is all Pettit has done...
...sunset, in a twilight brightened by the burning automobiles, the Communists' carefully planned day's work came to an end. Behind them lay two dead and 1,454 injured, 131 of them critically...
...sunset supper in McKinlock courtyard followed by a formal dance in recreated Okefenokee Swamp (Leverett's Dining Hall) caps the day for the long-earred citizens. Called the Pogo Fish Fry and Stomp, the dance should feature Walt Kelly, Pogo's pen man, who will christen a life-size statue of Albert the Alligator, according to festivity officials. Kelly has promised the dance committee he'd try to attend the ball...
Party goers will be feted at a Sunset Supper in Leverett House on Friday night, and will go for boat rides on the Charles Saturday afternoon...
Hold! There is a break! Then, as suddenly, as mysteriously as it came, it is over. A strange silence engulfs the city, broken only by the infrequent whimpering of a shattered milliner. Peace descends, the western sky assumes the soft reds and blues of a New England sunset, and the first calm note of the angelus rings out over the countryside. Lights are beginning to flicker and glow in dormer windows. Let us take our leave now, softly, quietly...