Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as products containing poison are required to carry a warning label, this book should be wrapped in a band warning the weak of stomach that the characters, language, incidents and atmosphere are apt to induce acute nausea. Yet for those who can take it, the book provides the grisly fascination which clings to any dissection of rottenness. Fowlers End is a fictional section of London so far gone in vice, filth and despair that its inhabitants seem bent on denying that they are human. Hogarth would have shuddered at the thought of setting foot there. Nevertheless the book...
...attracts the earnest and informed young jazz buffs in heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks and intently following the music. After midnight, when the air is blue with smoke and the beer drinkers at the bar are vibrating with the music. visiting jazzmen are apt to move to the front of the room, pick up borrowed instruments and join...
Opening a collection of short stories by a new writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...
Since the University of Nevada is the only institution of higher learning in the state, anything that happens there is apt to make headlines. But not since its foundation 83 years ago have the headlines registered the bitterness they have shown in the past five years. Since he took over in 1952, President Minard W. Stout, 49, has been the center of so many political and academic storms that he now holds the distinction of being the most discussed figure in the state...
...Farino really does throw with a golden arm, the local varsity may well be in for a troubled afternoon. The Army game made it clear that the Crimson's regularly voluminous attack is apt to shrink before a good pitcher...