Word: sweat
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Beaded Sweat. His work was a triumph of the will. At his best, he wrote with an audacious, staccato directness which permanently altered the rhythm and content of American fiction. The core of that achievement is the self-explanatory novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat...
...sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with an intense, nervous conviction of actuality...
...design a radio coil. I make it with sweat and blood and it's the ne plus ultra coil. Then I give it to a producer and tell him to make it just so. Then that bum makes it wrong. So I get into the coil business...
...Sweat in the Cathedral
Offensive tackle Bob Stargel, the only Brown casualty (bruised ankle), worked out in a sweat suit and the medical staff will not know until later in the week whether he will be available. Guard Dick Heidtmann scrimmaged yesterday and should be ready for full defensive duty Saturday...