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...another Remembrance of Things Past or even a Gone With the Wind-speaking of first novels-but it does present more than a dozen books of rippling readability, and several that promise to become bestsellers. Above all, it introduces four new novelists-Robert Crichton, James Mossman, Cynthia Ozick, Sylvia Wilkinson-whose literary skill and temperamental resonance argue remarkable things to come...
Moss on the North Side (Houghton Mifflin) by Sylvia Wilkinson, 26, a green-eyed elf from the tobacco country of North Carolina, is a lyric evocation of childhood by one of the most talented Southern bellettrists to appear since Carson McCullers. Begun when the author was 13 and rewritten intermittently for more than a decade, Moss transpires in the mind and immediate vicinity of a white-trash waif. The girl's mother, a cold-eyed prostitute, abandons her, and her father, a warm-hearted Cherokee Indian, dies of rabbit fever. Desperate, she seeks in nature the tenderness she needs...
...teaches novices well enough their freshman and sophomore years so that they sun move up a few notches into a low starting position their junior year, and then take a prominent spot as a senior. Barnaby always has two or three such students, such as Matt Hall or Todd Wilkinson...
Appleby and Davis beat Heckscher and Coonley in the first doubles, 6-2, 6-4. The Crimson pair dominated the match at the net, often returning slams on the volley, to overwhelm the Quaker duo. Todd Wilkinson and Jose Gonzalex beat George and Levin in the second doubles, 12-10. And Dinny Adams and Dan Kleinman stopped Serues and Elliot Abrams in the third match...
Harvard did take the third doubles, however, behind Friedman and Todd Wilkinson...