Word: thudding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...best in his human vignettes, as when he describes Mike, a dedicated radical, during an intramural baseball game, "running to catch a fly, face upturned, thick glasses mirroring fleecy clouds, beard flying in the April wind, an outsized cap cupping his flowing hair-and then the thud of the ball in his glove and the companionable cheers of men who didn't agree with Mike on one damn thing...
...country whose image of the Jew is a hybrid composite of the sex-crazed fantasies of Alexander Portnoy and the excessive mentality of Fiddler on the Roof, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a refreshing breeze of sanity and reality. His stories and novels portary a life which vanished with the thud of German army boots-that of the shtetl, the Eastern European Jewish village. Not surprisingly, many of his simple tales and anecdotes of the old country ring with more authenticity than the slick, cynical products of our modern literati...
hear no regular thud of following