Word: bick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Providence College ran away with the meet as expected, placing all five of its scorers in the top 13 and recording just 36 points. Friar Ray Treacy spoiled Northeastern all-American Bruce Bick-ford's last race at Franklin Park with a 29:28 victory, 27 seconds ahead of Bick-ford. Boston University, which finished second with 83 points, also qualified for the national meet...
...race began with a blistering pace set by Bickford, who split at the mile in 4:21, 35 yards ahead of Harvard's Murphy. The leaders slowed down considerably in the next mile, as Treacy moved up on Bick-ford: and the two ran together through the two-mile split at 9:03, about 75 yards ahead of the rest of the field...
...cannot face him, hides behind a tree and lets him pass. He yearns to confide in his estranged daughter. When she finally tells him of her affair with a man even older than her father, offering Dubin a perfect opening to finally unburden himself about his love for Fanny Bick, he lets the opportunity pass. Instead he delivers a tired, paternal lecture, retreating into the mythical wisdom he supposedly possesses as a biographer intimate with the lives of the great. Even when his wife discovers his affair with Fanny and the lame excuse of "protecting" her is gone, he still...
Dubin falls in love with Fanny Bick, a semi-flower child and college dropout. He is fifty-seven; she is twenty-two. It takes him 200 pages to get around to making love to her. They love each other, passionately, but Dubin cannot let go of his wife, of his ordered life. Malamud's descriptions of a middle-aged marriage-gone-sour are minutely detailed, embarassing in their intimacy and immediacy...
...book, mindful of the vicarious nature of his craft: "One writes lives he can't live." The subject in this case is D.H. Lawrence, whose yawps about sex and blood consciousness seem designed to unhinge middle-aged intellectuals. Dubin proves no exception and soon takes up with Fanny Bick, nearly 35 years his junior...