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...centered on last week's precinct meetings, where victory would give control of the county and state conventions. Shivers campaigned wildly, nailing about on all sides. Johnson, he cried, was "vain, ambitious and vicious," and was "playing footsie" with left-wingers to boot. The issue was whether the Texas delegation would become one "of errand boys bound body and soul in advance to deliver the Texas votes whenever and where Mr. Sam decrees...
...might do, these students set the tone of the class. Yet "they cannot be invited to leave school: the school will not permit it, the community would not approve, and the parents would strenuously object." As a result, educators have tended to turn their courses into entertainments in the vain effort to make learning seem as much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop. "If students raise Cain in algebra...
Trai Mitra was a poor parish, its only material blessing a nondescript Buddha which stood under an old tin shed, and for years the abbot had been trying in vain to get old Kamthorn to do something about it. The Year of the Goat turned the trick. Kamthorn donated $35,000. A new temple was built, and workmen set about moving the statue into its new home. But the goat was still at work, and in the midst of the heavy task the workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests...
...tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
...tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed in vain. Walk Through the Valley is a solid book...