Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be shocked at the publication of a novel by a Harvard freshman, or even surprised that he wrote it while at Hotchkiss. What would be surprising would be the publication of a good novel by a Harvard freshman, but for that I'm afraid we shall have to wait until at least next season...
...important than ten Berlins, but the U.S. continues to study Berlin and act as if Khrushchev's "deadline" is something like a bureaucrat's lunch hour and must be taken seriously. Berlin is the deliberate decoy set up by the Communists to distract the U.S. from Iraq. Wait...
...Year Wait. By 1957, faced with such opposition, the Chinese Reds-in a rare admission of serious trouble-promised that the communization of Tibet would be delayed at least six years. Many Chinese Red civilians were sent home. But still the Khamba insurrection flourished. Encampments of the tribesmen began to dot the wide plain around Lhasa. They consolidated their hold on the barren, treeless region that runs along the borders of India, Bhutan and Sikkim. The nervous Chinese Reds countered by erecting watchtowers along the Lhasa road, sandbagged strategic positions around the city...
...while, Carl and Joan cling to each other in a sort of unprincipled camaraderie: up to a point, Carl shares her lazy indifference to consequences, her pretty-eyed irresponsibility toward everyone, including oneself. But in the end, he makes his break. Along the way, Author McLaughlin (A Short Wait Between Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust to dust...
...help. When he is dropped from the force, Matthäi opens a gas station and hires a former streetwalker with a young daughter as housekeeper; he hopes that the child's presence will lure the murderer. Matthäi's stubborn faith leads to a long wait, during which he turns to liquor, degenerates both physically and mentally. The murderer does not appear. And yet the question of whether or not Matthäi was right, after all, keeps the reader in suspense...