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1992Year The impact of air-conditioning on literature is a subject that has too long been ignored. In the pre-a.c. era, authors generally seem to have written more feelingly about high temperatures and hot summer days than they have in air-conditioned times. Following are passages by 15 pre-a.c. writers. You can find their names among the 25 listed below (10 of the authors on the list are included to confuse you). Your job is to link each steamy passage with the name of its creator. The answers are on page 30. Select the 15 authors of the quotations from these 25 names: 1. Jane Austen 2. James Baldwin 3. Albert Camus 4. Willa Cather 5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 6. Joseph Conrad 7. Colette 8. William Faulkner 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald 10. Langston Hughes 11. Zora Neale Hurston 12. James Joyce 13. John Keats 14. D. H. Lawrence 15. Thomas Mann 16. John Milton 17. Vladimir Nabokov 18. Ogden Nash 19. Cole Porter 20. Williamc Shakespeare 21. John Steinbeck 22. Mark Twain 23. Nathanael West 24. Edith Wharton 25. Virginia Woolf A. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines. B. The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer. As my train emerged from the tunnel into sunlight, only the hot whistles of the National Biscuit Company broke the simmering hush at noon. The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion
the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist. . . . Who Wrote It? Your Getting Warmer
1949Year DESPITE its title and its setting in between-wars Italy, "The Woman of Rome" is perhaps the least consciously "Italian" novel among the recent translations brought out in this country. It is completely without local color, and Adriana, the heroine, is more closely related to Moll Flanders than to Alfred Hayes' "The Girl on the Via Flaminia." Adriana
THE WOMAN OF ROME. By Alberto Moravia. 433 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Co. $3.50.
1936Year The woman who goes shopping for presents for men in stores now jammed with peak crowds does well to arm herself with a gift list in advance. This reduces wear and tear on feet and temper. In making up her Christmas list for 1936 she must choose among wares offered in a market well provided with all the old stand-bys as well as with a number of new departures. NEW THINGS IN THE CITY SHOPS
The Woman on Her Christmas Rounds Will Find Gifts for Men in Abundance
2000Year DEAR DIARY: The young couple browsing at the garage sale seemed taken with a cut-glass vase. The man admired its graceful lines and delicate pattern
the woman said she had seen it for three times the price at Fortunoff's. ''We'll put it on the coffee table,'' he said. JERSEY DIARY
1934Year Sieveking, Lance
The Woman She Was A Good Novel of England's Yesterday; THE WOMAN SHE WAS. By Lance Sieveking. 370 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $2.50.
1976Year Maybe this suit isn't really better made than the ones made by women's manufacturers, but it cer?? seems like it is.”
The woman speaking was in a Fifth Avenue de??ment store in an area newly ?? to clothing for women made ?? wear manufacturers, and ?? did what an impressive number women across the country are ?? She bought the suit (which ?? with pants). “We can't keep ?? in stock,” a salesclerk re?? “We're selling them as fast ?? put them on the floor.” Fashion