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...Challenge Accepted. In Memphis, five delegates to a Key Club convention discussing "Vandalism: A Challenge to Youth" were fined $16 each for throwing a mirror and chair out of a window of the Hotel King Cotton...
...side in the Spanish civil war and has set out to tell his country's tragic story from the beginning of the republic (1931) to the present. Cypresses covers the first five years of political unrest, ends twelve days after the beginning of civil war. Gironella tries to mirror every segment of Spanish society, from wild-eyed anarchists to stuffy professors, "from the bishop to the bootblack." The novel's hero, if it has one, is Ignacio, ison of a poor but intelligent civil servant. His mother is a devout Catholic, his brother a saintly boy headed...
...produces "the secret decay." (Laymen may not know that some times after a concussion of erasers on the blackboard, the familiar mushroom cloud of dust rises high in the air and results in heavy fallout many feet from the point of origin.) After a long hard look in the mirror, it seemed obvious at first that I had it. What else could account for the receding hairline, the dewlap under the chin, and all those creases in the old epidermis? Yes, that was it, the secret decay, but still was it not a sort of hallmark of noble craft...
...physically awkward"-so much so that he bent every effort to making himself manually skillful, spending hours whipping a rifle to his shoulder in front of a mirror (he became a first-rate shot). Fear of error caused him to develop "an insatiable appetite for tabulation" and the determination to write nothing that he could not back up. His inability to talk back fast and deep-rooted fear of sudden criticism made him a wary recluse who spent year upon year building impregnable fortresses. Author Irvine is a shade sharp with Novelist Samuel Butler, who, like Shaw after him, quarreled...
...hard Williams can hit, or how vividly he can write, or that, in a theater full of feigned and borrowed emotions, his are honestly hot and angry. But his own feelings, often intemperate, work against him. Perhaps it is the revenge of an age of violence on those who mirror it, that they should themselves seem violent where they mean to be intense, should too often mistake blind assault for implacable pursuit...