Word: warms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times the sea was steely purple, stained; at others, under a close warm rain sky, the no-color of dirty wash; choppy rows hurried in from the horizon to be delivered and disposed of in the lick and slide at the shore. Piet stopped to pick up angel wings, razor clam shells, sand dollars with their infallibly etched star and their considerate airhole for an inhabiting creature Piet could not picture...
...EDUCATION OF H-Y-M-A-N KAPLAN. Poverty is romantic only from a distance; when seen through the eyes of Leo Rosten's maddeningly ingratiating immigrant in this warm and breezy musical, it is also amusing. Tom Bosley is the Yiddishe Yankee...
This acknowledgment that the little disturbances of man are not so little is what saves the book from cleverness-this, and a warm acceptance of life. As one of its hard-pressed women observes when an inventory of all her troubles paradoxically gives her hope: "All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar...
...most of them gifted amateurs out of regional coves and hollers-competed in the school auditorium and gymnasium and a nearby revival tent. In addition, a passel of noncompeting performers fiddled, sang or plucked banjos wherever they could scare up an audience-in the classrooms that were used for warm-up rooms, in the parking lots, in the shadow of the tent. Everywhere the air was filled with the dum-ditty-dum-dum rhythms, sprightly scraping and mournful droning of such classic Appalachian ditties as Jimmy Crack Corn, Tom Dooley and John Henry...
...warm encirclement of Tarbox, friends, and family...