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...deserted London occupied only by abandoned pets, the hunted scientist and several divisions of troops searching house to house for him. Even the success of this grand finale lies in the incidental glimpses of minor characters, searching soldiers mainly, not in the slowly mounting "tension," which consists mainly of sweat on the faces of the main characters...
Last week one of Dickie's friends asked him to play Indian. He agreed. But at the last minute he decided to try a different game. He put on a yellow sweat shirt, tied a bath towel around his neck like a cape. The boys headed for a 25-foot embankment. Dickie walked back from the brink, turned, ran as hard as he could, and jumped out into the air. He fell on his stomach. He lay on the ground, scratched and dirty, and unable to get up. His mother, summoned by the playmate, hurried him to a doctor...
...blood, no sweat, no tears ever smudge the neat laundering of Acheson's sentences, or the mannerliness of his theories. Just as Europeans do not quite catch his urgency, the U.S. people-or at least a good many of them-cannot quite tune...
...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...