Word: bobbit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capote's style is pure and free from writer's cramp in dealing with such subjects as the devotions and heroisms of children and the world of intense phenomena in which children live. His description of Miss Bobbit, in Children on Their Birthdays, may not be for everybody, but it is a fair example of good Capote: "By now it was almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit...