Word: among
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...Chicago the president's office of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.-first among U. S. railroads in trackage operated (13,500 miles), fourth in revenue-is a severely handsome, blue-carpeted room overlooking Lake Michigan. It contains two desks, one flat and one rolltop, and last week no one sat at either. But hard at work next door, in the same cubbyhole he has occupied for 29 years, was beaknosed, grey-haired Edward J. (for nothing) Engel...
Three scenes stand out as among the most dramatic in recent fiction: the collapse of a jerry-built building in which Paul's father is slowly drowned in concrete; an accident in which Paul's godfather plunges 20 floors from a skyscraper scaffolding; an all-night Italian wedding fiesta, a triumph of descriptive gusto over disgust...
...HAWK AMONG THE SPARROWS-Desmond Hawkins-Knopf...
...year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals than a warning to intellectuals who think they are hawks...