Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Mercer is supposed to have refused it with, `` Anyone who wears a square monacle must be affected ''!!

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

But DeKalb citizens, those who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed to make any money.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

It is discouraging for students to realize that the societies do not truly uphold the standards for which they are supposed to stand.

) has amounted to about one third of those total revenue requirements which the carload freight business is supposed to be called upon to meet.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

The savings are not as great, however, as is sometime supposed.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

and he, being the eldest, was supposed to be a priest, but he chose to do differently, and one of his brothers is to become the priest.

`` Several times I found the players pepping me up, where it usually is the coach who is supposed to deliver the fight talk.

The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way, he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith ''.

the difference between Mr. Parker and the Association is a difference between no Christianity and Christianity '' -- despite these supposed conclusive assurances, the modern liberal heaves repeatedly a sigh of relief, of positive thanksgiving, that the Association never quite brought itself officially to expel Parker.

But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

One patriarch is supposed to have relegated sacred scriptures for use in an outhouse.

It is really as though the Russians have seen in this character the oftentimes underlying vitality and courage of supposed buffoons.

Although he is not graced with the subtleties of romantic technique, that's not what an ex-prize fighter is supposed to have, anyway.

There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.

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Martin Louis Amis ( 25 August 1949 ) is a British novelist.

Friendships, rivalries, and acknowledgments of common literary aims within each of these groups could be intense ( the relationship between Amis and Larkin is considered one of the great literary friendships of the 20th century ).

Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell ( 1905-2000 ) whose twelve-volume cycle of novels A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951-1975 ), is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century ; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire Lucky Jim ( 1954 ); Nobel Prize laureate William Golding's allegorical novel Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ), explores how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys marooned on a deserted island ; philosopher Iris Murdoch was a prolific writer of novels that deal with such things as sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

Martin Amis ( 1949-) is one of the most prominent of contemporary British novelists.

The Faculty of Commerce and Social Science, now known as the Ashley Building, was designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis and is a long, curving two-storey block linked to a five-storey whorl.

Such speech or writing is sometimes called hyperurbanism, defined by Kingsley Amis as an " indulged desire to be posher than posh ".

" Academic and writer Kingsley Amis, in his exploration of Bond in The James Bond Dossier, considered that this view of Leiter was partly because of Fleming's writing, noting that " Leiter, such a nonentity as a piece of characterization ... he, the American, takes orders from Bond, the Britisher, and that Bond is constantly doing better than he ".

Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.

Dixon struggles with an on-again off-again " girlfriend " Margaret Peel ( a fellow lecturer and possibly based on Monica Jones, the sometime muse and companion of Amis ' friend Philip Larkin ), who is recovering from a failed suicide attempt in the wake of an unsuccessful relationship with a previous boyfriend.

Baldock is mentioned frequently in the supernatural thriller The Green Man by Kingsley Amis ( 1969 ).

Robert Markham is a pseudonym used by author Kingsley Amis to publish Colonel Sun in March 1968.

With the outbreak of the French Revolution, M. des Amis is killed, and Moreau inherits the school.

The term is central in the relationship between the main characters in Yellow Dog by Martin Amis ( 2003 )

Martin Amis, who was harshly criticized in America Alone yet nevertheless gave it a positive review, says of his style: " Mark Steyn is an oddity: his thoughts and themes are sane and serious — but he writes like a maniac.

He is also an administrator of the Société des Amis du Musée d ' Art moderne de la ville de Paris.

In what follows, the term ' postmodernist ' is used for experimental authors ( especially Durrell, Fowles, Carter, Brooke-Rose, Barnes, Ackroyd, and Martin Amis ) while " post-modern " is applied to authors who have been less innovative.

There is in Paris a Society for the painter: Association des Amis de Théodore Chassériau ( see External links ).

As late as 19 October he reported to Amis that " Brunette is working on a little monograph about girls ' school stories ".

This poem, and " The School in August ", were included in Larkin's Collected Poems published in 1988 ; " The School in August " was omitted from the 2003 revised edition of the collection although, according to Amis, it is the poem that best gives the flavour of the Coleman pastiche.