Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trace of coldness rimming his urbanity, refused to recognize the fact. He announced one of his 1938 compositions, Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue. A strange, spasmodic air, that carried memories of wilderness and city, rose through the salt-scented night air like a fire on a beach. Minutes passed. People turned back from the exits; snoozers woke up. All at once the promise of new excitement revived the dying evening...
...girl takes his mind off his prayers. Hatsue is lithe and lovely, the winner among the women divers of an unofficial "best-shaped breasts" contest. A fleeting kiss on the beach is about all Shinji can hope for from Hatsue, since her father is a wealthy shipowner with small use for penniless apprentice fishermen. Author Mishima, who seems to have learned some of his flower-arranging from Hollywood, maroons the couple in an abandoned tower during a storm...
...tries to win her affection, then tries to take her by force, but he realizes that having her that way would really be a defeat. When she drives off in their car, leaving him stranded, he goes wading along the shore that was a wartime beach and is blown up by a mine. This, Moravia seems to say, is more merciful all around...
...attraction this time is Martha Lipton, soprano, together with a small orchestra. The cost is $5 per person for bus transportation, concert tickets, and picnic supper on the beach; $5.75 if you want to eat lobster. All interested should sign up in Grays 1 by Friday...
GENTLY BY THE SHORE, by Alan Hunfer (249 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), deposits the naked body of an unidentified man on the beach at Starmouth, an English seaside resort. The body shows four stab wounds and unmistakable signs of torture. Chief Inspector Gently, Central Office, C.I.D., a Scotland Yard detective who unfortunately pops peppermints into his mouth during tense moments, gives the tale a tone of well-mannered British calm in spite of the neon-lighted boardwalk setting and a lurid cast of characters, which includes a prostitute, a couple of juvenile delinquents, a village idiot and a gang of international...