Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomore Scheu has performed impressively in the gap left by Lehigh's 1957 Little All-American quarterback Dan Nolan, completing ten of the 17 passes he has thrown. But a fair portion of his success must be credited to a brace of veteran ends--Joe Wenzel and Dave Nevil--who may well beleaguer the Crimson backfield all afternoon. Wenzell especially has the reputation of being one of the most deceptive and skillful receivers in the East...
...till 10 p.m., when a golden quarter-moon was sinking into the saguaro, did the campaigner call it a day. Taking off from a scrub-lined strip without lights, he flew into Tucson, checked in at the Pioneer Hotel, took off his shirt, pants and shoes, ordered a brace of Old Crows (splashed with water, but no ice), swallowed a Miltown tablet and went to sleep like a winner...
WATER Music, by Bianco VanOrden (254 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is at bottom an old-fashioned novel about the tortuous ways of young love, even if its style flashes like high-IQ gossip and the characters are as plausibly etched as perfect counterfeit money. In 309 East & a Night of Levitation (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), Author VanOrden showed a nice disinterest in anything ordinary. Now she makes up ordinary faces as if they were being prepared for an Italian fancy-dress ball. Her young Americans are rich, educated and self-consciously tortured by love and the need to prove that...
What, asks Lewis, are Christians to make of such vitriol? In his provocatively chatty Reflections on the Psalms (Harcourt, Brace; $3.75), the wise and witty Oxford don argues that such embarrassments should not simply be ignored. Remembering that all Holy Scripture is "written for our learning" and that "Our Lord's mind and language were clearly steeped in the Psalter," Lewis prefers to make "some use" of the curses. One of their uses, he found, is to call attention to the same hatreds in modern man's own heart-"we are, after all, blood brothers to these ferocious...
LOST SUMMER, by Christopher Davis (320 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), introduces Toni Newman, who is 18, pretty, decent, and has been brought up in solid comfort by intelligent, loving parents. Yet she shouts at her shocked mother: "I'd go to bed with anybody who loved me or gave me a chance to love him. Anybody...