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...most New Yorker short story writers, Author Parsons knows how to reproduce scenes from middle-class American life with photographic neatness, and a restraint that verges on bloodlessness. Author Parsons' characters are often worn to the bone by despair and nostalgia, but they are rarely impolite; they give vent to long sighs, but never to bad language...
...high, with a hole in its head. But in eruption it is a thing out of Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...
...subject an enemy belligerent to an unfair trial, to charge him with an unrecognized crime, or to vent on him our retributive emotions only antagonizes the enemy nation and hinders the reconciliation necessary to a peaceful world...
...organs as "The Common Man" and "Common Sense" various observers have attempted to analyze the movement to discover whether there are dangerous seeds within. One of the most recent analyses, an article by Max Ascoli in Commonweal, credited the growth of these periodicals to the Italians' desire to give vent to their restlessness now that they are no longer under the thumb of Mussolini...
...about time that you put a stop to the . . . odoriferous flatulence of the monomaniacal person who does your purported music criticism? It does not seem just and fair to permit a crank to vent this malignity time after time, especially concerning a subject which does not allow levity. Sarcasm, or the caprice of an ignorant and petulant fool. If your paper is governed by principles of decency and good writing, certainly there is no room for the sort of thing that we find in the most recent Music...