Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Angry Old Man. King is a superior monologuist, even though his prose is not housebroken and some of his stories seem to have filtered through sewer pipes. In style and substance, he is a throwback to the iconoclastic '20s, one of the last of the angry old men who picked up the idol-smashing habit from H. L. Mencken...
...white clapboard houses. On Christmas Eve, Homeowner Packard took his ease with his wife Virginia and their three children in their 45-year-old, 12-room, two-story, fairly Early American (Federalist), white clapboard house in New Canaan, Conn. At about 7:30 p.m., Packard abruptly learned that such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide log rose up the chimney, removed all chance of a visit from Santa by setting fire to the wood-shingled roof. Before the Packards (plus some 40 volunteer firemen) quenched...