Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people do not really have faces, perhaps because he is less interested in writing of people than in describing the enormous distances that separate them. But he has surveyed those spaces with great exactness. Reconciliation of a sort follows the adulterous affair in The Wayward Wife, but the terrain of indifference and ignorance that lies between the country wife and the chattering physics professor she has married is too vast to be bridged...
Major Crisp, who describes himself as a frightened man who fought to submerge his fears, was always out in front, almost always outnumbered. His picture of the desert terrain is remarkably well drawn-a weird world of sand and escarpments where the battle swirled without seeming aim or purpose except to destroy whatever enemy showed, usually to the surprise of both sides. Friends destroyed each other supposing that they had the enemy in their sights, and Crisp's most sickening memory is that of the day when he himself knocked out a British tank...
...Republican members of Congress, the session should prove comparatively relaxing. The Administration can take its stand on the solid, familiar terrain of peace, prosperity and fiscal integrity. With last session's seasoning behind them, the G.O.P. minority-leader team of Illinois' Everett Dirksen in the Senate and Indiana's Charles Halleck in the House should be able to operate even more smoothly and effectively than it did last year. And when not engaged in withstanding budget-unbalancing Democratic programs, the Republicans on the Hill can sit back and enjoy the spectacle of the Democrats' cloakroom...