Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were no writers in Cornish, N.H., and no plumbing or furnace in the gambrel-roofed cottage Salinger bought on a 90-acre hillside tract overlooking the Connecticut River. That winter he happily carried water from his stream and cut wood with a chain saw. For company he hiked across the river to Windsor, Vt., and passed the time with teen-agers in a juke joint called Nap's Lunch. The kids loved him, but mothers worried that the tall, solemn writer fellow from New York would put their children in a book...
...Glory, by Pierre-Henri Simon. Writing an eloquent antiwar tract, in the form of a novel, the author tells the agony of a French professional soldier who, in Algeria, comes to believe that his is an ignoble role in a shameful...
Cholera is spread by any means that gets Vibrio comma from the feces of one victim to the digestive tract of the next-chiefly contaminated water and food. To keep the disease out of other parts of Asia, shipment of fresh fruits and vegetables into or out of Hong Kong was banned. In the Philippines and Formosa, less than two-hour flights away, raw food from Hong Kong was seized and burned. The Philippines, which have a heavy, regular and effective program of cholera vaccination, began giving booster shots but reported no cases. Formosa hurriedly got out its needles...
...Glory, by Pierre-Henri Simon. Writing an eloquent antiwar tract in the form of a novel, the author tells the agony of a French professional soldier who, in Algeria, comes to believe that his is an ignoble role in a shameful...
This is a novel only because French Author Pierre-Henri Simon chooses to call it one. Actually, it is an antiwar tract and one of the most eloquent in recent years. It is the author's bitter J'accuse, telling all Frenchmen and the world that France, first in Indo-China and now in Algeria, has given its soldiers ignoble roles in shameful wars. Says the hero's friend: "You can't say that war's our industry, for it nearly always costs us more than...