Word: dos
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...letters. Norman Mailer's brutal, scatological novel of war on a Pacific island, The Naked and the Dead, was in its eleventh week as the nation's top bestseller, and the critical ovation was still going on. A few reviewers detected the strong influence of Melville and Dos Passos in Mailer's massive novel, and many Comstocks of the lending libraries were offended by its festering descriptions and raw, one-syllable dialogue; but in the general acclaim their voices were drowned out. At 25. Mailer had written the great novel of World War II. It had come...
...sprints are sprints, and Hunter came in fourth. He concentrated so hard on Devitt and Larson he missed seeing Dos Santos, and also missed a medal...
Lance Larson of the University of Southern California took second according to the judges' decision, although three timers clocked him ahead of Devitt. U.S. officials protested the decision, but in vain. Manuel Dos Santos of Brazil was third...
...final timings of the race showed Devitt and Larson at 55.2, Dos Santos 55.4, and Hunter 55.6. The winning time broke the former Olympic mark of 55.4, set in 1956 by Jon Henricks of Australia, but not the world mark of 54.6, which Devitt himself set three months after the '56 games...
...fuzzy minded conservative, Dos Passos wrote the original novels while a fuzzy-minded liberal, and the play sometimes verges on the sentimental glorification of the sordid and false that fuzzy-mindedness may produce. However, a coolly ironical detachment saves most of the script from mushiness, and provides a background for emotion-packed events that enables us to accept their content as sentiment, rather than sentimentality...