Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RECOGNITIONS (956 pp.)-William Gaddis-Harcourf, Brace...
...MOMENT BEFORE THE RAIN, by Elizabeth Enright (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), is a collection of 18 short stories with a sharply etched image on nearly every page. A woman emerges from childbirth feeling "like a huge sea shell washed up by the highest wave, empty but still ringing from the tides." There are trees hung with grey moss "like . . . the wigs of old witches" and an old-fashioned store that is full of "ribbon, cloth and clean middle-aged ladies: dry goods, indeed." The shining words of this gifted writer often appear on obvious and outsized mountings. The last...
During summers, between his years at high school, Craig went to Culver Military Academy, an experience that has left him with a cadet's brace posture. Because he wanted to see some of the country, he spent his first two college years at the University of Arizona, where he joined the forbidden drinking fraternity, Kappa Beta Phi, which was the reverse of Phi Beta Kappa in more than title. "I took liberal arts," says Craig. "Damn liberal, too, I'll tell...
...14th century conspirators surged into the palace bellowing, "Death to the tyrant!" Count Fosca (the tyrant in question) whipped out his sword and skewered the ringleader. Seconds later, Fosca felt "a sharp pain between my ribs," but instead of dropping down dead, he only spitted another brace of gizzards. Three hundred years later, the same Count Fosca "shot myself in the chest and then in the mouth"; 300 years after that, still going strong, he drew a razor across his throat, but "the lips of the gash [drew] together...only a long pink scar remained...
...Russell Brace, an undergraduate director of the annual Big Green weekend, predicted yesterday that the only overnight shelter available will be with friends in the area. Fraternities have each been allowed 45 private invitations...