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Word: bloodfest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...virginal mother of three, a kiss that somehow set in motion for the woman and her future husband and children that secret civil war between Puritanism and passion, a war of the blood more openly and obviously dramatized by Author Morris in the spectacle of bloodless Americans watching the bloodfest of the bull ring. Always a novelist to watch, if not to cheer, Author Morris has also captured the poignance of the lonely in the gregarious accents of Midwest speech. At novel's end there is a fracas in the bull ring, and the boy with the Davy Crockett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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