Word: midway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while it looked as if Harvard would win, for although the Bruins started fast, they faded in the second period. The Crimson led, 5 to 3, midway in the third period, but Brown tied it, 5 to 5, and later, 6 to 6, to force the overtime...
...midway through Pleasure Dome in an essay on Insuranceman-Poet Wallace Stevens, Frankenberg suddenly takes a deep dive into little-magazine jargon, while the eager reader waits expectantly on the bridge between prose and poetry. Author and reader never quite meet again, and from here on, if the reader is to get across that bridge, he has to do it by himself...
CORAL SEA, MIDWAY AND SUBMARINE ACTIONS (307 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
...this point, In Sicily is an excellent novel about the same kind of simple and appealing people that Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the Snow) writes about-all done in a clipped Hemingwayesque style. But just about midway, Novelist Vittorini goes off on a wild-swinging tear into symbolism which is part sentimentality, part hallucination. His characters begin to chant lugubrious dirges about the "world's outrages" that sound as if they had been written by William Saroyan with an ice pack on his head...
Meanwhile, beyond the Midway, other educators chimed in with protests. To John Dewey, the split between Hutchins and himself was "the cleft that now marks every phase and aspect of philosophy. It presents the difference between an outlook that goes to the past for instruction and for guidance, and one that holds that philosophy . . . must pay supreme heed to movements, needs, problems, and resources that are distinctively modern...