Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
COLLECTED ESSAYS (578 pp.)-Allen Tate-Swallow...
Before the end, as is likely to be the case in a picaresque novel, the goings-on become a little hard to swallow. Disbelief can, in Coleridge's phrase, be suspended willingly, but it should not be hung by the neck until dead. The fault is not really important. With his portrayal of Billy, a Dick Whittington who misplaces his cat and never makes it to London. Author Waterhouse has created one of the year's most entertaining characters...