Word: whiphand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the other stories point the same moral, and yet Author Sillitoe is almost never bitter, self-pitying or sentimental. Most of his people are buoyed by a bottomless optimism. As Smith puts it, talking about the warden: "It's dead blokes like him as have the whiphand over blokes like me, and I'm almost dead sure it always will be that way, but even so, by Christ, I'd rather be like I am-always on the run and breaking into shops for a packet of fags and a jar of jam-than have...