Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife (with our 16-month-old child) wants to visit her aging parents at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores. My wife's parents are old and sick, and she wants to see them as soon as possible. Would you be kind enough to find out a way for her to travel by air from Venezuela to the Azores...
...five airlines advertising direct routes to Europe via the Azores "takes passengers to this place . . ." Then he added: "On page 3 of the May 23 issue of TIME'S Latin American edition you ran a full-page ad of Pan American Airways, which said: THE BEST WAY IN THE WORLD TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Should Pan American Airways correct this...
...Part of the difficulty is that the plot seems to have been trimmed down to the proportions of a cinema scenario. Part of it is that the flamboyance and stage effects of the earlier books do not mix with the doings of backwoods storekeepers or squabbles over right-of-way. But the deeper trouble is that Author Street's view of history, like that of most contemporary historical novelists, does not produce much of dramatic interest when applied to events after the Civil...
Frost was, at last, going back in time to the richly and fearfully storied past; he had taken the way that only the greatest modern men of letters-Joyce, Mann,, Eliot-have been able to take without being engulfed, into the mystery of the long ago that becomes myth. Though he took his humor and toughness with him, his Grail-poem, "Directive" (1947), has a sorrowful magic like nothing he had written before. If this was the old man's intolerable touch of poetry, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) carried on his vein...
...Homer Noble farm (named for a former owner) is where he spends the longest stretch of the year. He passes his time there, reading history and biography, sometimes working around the rugged mountain farm. When he gets to the Homer Noble farm the arrival is, in a geographical way, something like the one he wrote about not long ago in another sense...