Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sparrow's trenchant verdict on the assassination and the countless conspiracy theories that it engendered was rendered in an 18,000-word article in the London Times Literary Supplement. "While the assassination itself has till now remained the focus of attention," he wrote, "future historians are likely to be more interested in its aftermath...
...novel overflowing with characters, spanning decades instead of days or hours. Right now, the best bargain of this sort is A Horseman Riding By, by the British playwright and novelist R. F. Delderfield. It is long enough (half a million words) to last a careful reader from now till the Fourth of July, and it is so transparently simple that neither its ideas nor ambiguities will startle anyone. Since it runs a course from the Boer War to Dunkirk and sticks to a small rural valley and about 100 characters, it may well be the swan-song novel of England...
...went from bad to worse. Till it crashed. She walked away from the accident in disgust--"Passion, schmassion...
...space on the plane--it takes 40 minutes each way from St. Thomas. But one of them gave me his seat knowing he wanted me down; it was a little embarrassing because the reporter I had with me, an associate editor from the Washington Post, didn't make it till several hours later. They wouldn't give up the seat for a reporter...
Porte, who was out of town for part of last week, also did not read the play till Saturday morning although students had submitted it to him earlier. He then judged it "scurrilous...