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  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
  • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Barometer falling
  • Interpersonal relations; Women
  • The author gives a bird’s eye view of life among a variety of people on a given day and concludes with the story of Connie whose dog had bitten her friend’s child. Every day Connie feared the child’s mother would confront her with a medical bill,...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Miracle on a sidewalk
  • Beggars; Integrity
  • A poor beggar desperate for food begs on the sidewalk before a church where the shadow of Christ cast a shadow on him. Like an answer to his prayer for food, someone dropped an envelope with a pound note near him. Considering it a miracle, he takes...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Princess Alice talks with Sir and Lady Sherlock.
  • Special events - Jamaica; Chancellors - Caribbean Area, English-speaking; Princess Alice of Athlone; Sherlock, Philip; Lady Sherlock.
  • *Princess Alice, Chancellor of the UWI, chats with Sir Philip and Lady Sherlock at the farewell reception held in the Princess' honour on her retirement from being Chancellor, March 1971.
  • UWI Historical Photographs Collection
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  • Queen Elizabeth the Second opens the Senate House
  • Special Events - Jamaica; Royal visitors - Jamaica; Buildings - Jamaica; University Senate House (Jamaica); Queen Elizabeth the Second; Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh; Sherlock, Phillip; Sherlock, Lady; McDonald, Herbert.
  • *Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second has someone presented to her by Principal Walter Grave after she addressed the gathering at the undercroft, UWI Mona. Prince Phillip stands behind her and shakes the hand of a gentleman. Beside Prince Philip...
  • UWI Historical Photographs Collection
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  • Red dirt don't wash
  • Love stories ; man-woman relationships
  • Adrian, a simple country yokel, falls deeply in love with Miranda, a refined, city-bred lady’s maid. He feels woefully inadequate, but nevertheless, he tries to win her heart and this leads him to even buy a pair of shoes for his usually bare...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Still life with Oleanders
  • Family relations; Death ; Childhood and youth
  • Thaddeus, a young boy, mourns the passing of his grandmother as he soon realizes that his life is about to change and those of his adult relatives too who must each work through their own problems brought on by the old lady’s death.
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  • The lady is a whore
  • Jamaica - Politics and government ; Atlantic Charter
  • The author discusses the inadequacies of the “Atlantic Charter” which should represent freedom for mankind. However, he sees the freedoms being promulgated as confined solely to “gentlemen of certain complexion”, although this was not stated...
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  • The Virgin and the Boogey man
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Suffering from what the author calls a “virginity complex”, the lady played a cat and mouse game to get the attention of one of the men at the boarding house. When she did not get the desired results her antics grew more bizarre and desperate until...
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