Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never forgive). What was his religion? The man and his wife paled with fear. "We are Jews," he whispered. The inspector nodded. Down went his hand-to stamp approval on their entry papers. Speechless, the man and wife arose, reached for their children and hugged each in turn...
...Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that he bought the books for the pretty red bindings, never read a thing. Tough, stubborn, quizzical, Mr. De delighted in pulling such switches; he could sound in turn like a reactionary, a radical, an ignoramus or a bohemian. As an unpredictable intellectual, he singlehandedly derricked the foundering Saturday Review of Literature out of a hole in 1941 with a check for $22,500 (and when Editor Norman Cousins offered to have papers drawn up, replied: "We shook hands...
...possible only when and because one sees how hard it is in coming. The next editorial, entitled "The Place of Opposition" more directly criticized this university for its distractions, the activities which exist not for their own sake but to prove something else to somebody else, and which turn into poses. "Standards of measurement," they said," are strong distractions both in the B.A. and the Ph.D. systems." Then i.e. published its Harvard Issue, which has been much talked about...
...which Hyyam's oblique remarks create. When in the synagogue he is nudging his father to ask for money, he thinks, "I was faced with an iron will pretending to be religious ecstasy." The story is so readable because of the suspense with which we wait for fate to turn Hayyem's small successes into monstrous failures. His greatest early triumph, losing his virginity ("Without any kind of preliminaries, on top of a flour sack we got completely mixed up together"), produces two months later, a baby, for which he is convinced to pay "two month's salary for silence...
...weeks of sportsmanlike intimacy, competitors and fans alike began to let loose some of the bad temper induced by the Soviet repression of Hungary. The Russians' popularity seemed to diminish as rapidly as their score rose. They were booed so lustily when they took their turn on the fencing mats that police had to escort them through the threatening crowds...