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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In North Africa the happy trio is joined by Mrs. Lyle and her "pale and simple" son Eric who alternates between sleeping with his dominating mother and stealing from his fellow travelers. When Port dies from typhoid in a likely French Arab outpost, Kit wanders off into the desert where...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Weird Ones in the Desert | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

From this simple arrangement Mr. Bowles seeks to establish the lack of moral and social authors which permits the tides of life to push us all about one way or another. But the lurid quality of Kit's refuge in the "friendly carnal presence" of the nearest male makes the...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Weird Ones in the Desert | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Actually Mr. Bowles does achieve some very fine mood creation in his descriptions of travels through the deserts from one squalid town to the next. Only when he allows his characters to become reflective does he ruin this mood.

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Weird Ones in the Desert | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Mr. Bowles has dropped several John O'Hara characters into a Prokosch setting and used them to establish the fact that the human race is going into a moral Sahara fast. It is difficult to picture these people going any other way, but at the same time it is unfair...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Weird Ones in the Desert | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Smith women will hear five hours of Harvard radio programs tomorrow night when 24 members of WHRB descend on WCSR, the Smith College Radio Station, to broadest their own programs.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Will Give Program at Smith | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

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