Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures on the walls and religious statues given as prizes, but it is a child's way to collect pictures and souvenirs of those they admire. Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio have decorated half the boys' rooms in America. Are they more worthy than Christ or the Virgin Mary, or some of the great saints of history...
...occupied and occupiers in Germany to a fine case history in boorish cruelty and prejudice in a New England factory town. In the 15 brief pages of A Modest Proposal Author Stafford can convey the look, the heat, the boredom, and the sharp antagonisms being played out at a Virgin Islands hotel peopled by divorcées. Like the rest of these tales of interior sickness, it is a sure antidote to complacency. Like most of them, it pokes at the heart, but never makes it miss a beat...
...thick-carpeted clubrooms hung with Goyas, Corots and Monets. Out windows and into bonfires went books and furniture. A club member, pleading with one of the firebugs to save an irreplaceable book, urged the youth to "take it home if you wish, but in the name of the Holy Virgin, don't burn it!" "What do you think we are, thieves?" snapped the youth, and threw the volume on the fire. Outside, policemen detoured traffic around the flaming $4,500,000 building, but made no move to stop the arson...
Blundell arrived in Kenya 18 years ago as a "farm pupil." During the war he bought the site of his present farm. It was virgin bush. Today it is a trim model farm, with neat contours and terraces, fields of asparagus (canned for export) and sleek Guernsey cattle. Relatively speaking, he is a liberal. That is to say, he thinks the whites should run Kenya with only a junior position for the Indians and the Africans (each of whom outnumber the whites). But at the same time he believes in uplift for the aborigines...
Nassau, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, are a little more out of the way, but equally as delightful as their northern neighbor, Bermuda. A trip to Cuba will introduce you to the Latin atmosphere...