Word: bracings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE Fox (553 pp.)-James MacGregor Burns-Harcourf, Brace...
...FIELD OF VISION, by Wright Morris (251 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), takes a handful of "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners, sits them in the stands of a Mexican bull ring, and has them re-fight the few past moments of truth in their lives. What dies in the ring is flesh; what has already perished in the stands is hope, mind and spirit. Among the fatally gored spectators: an icy arch-mom, the "chaste virginal mother of three"; her husband, a man who has transferred what little emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile...
Despite an inauspicious beginning with Harbor Lights, the theatre season in Boston is now developing into something quite stimulating. And one of the best things running at the moment is Separate Tables, Terence Rattigan's brace of plays dealing with the problem of growing old, alone...
Duffy's is the only banter. There is no skylarking; this is grim business. Almost every player wears a reminder of just how rugged Big Ten football can be. Peaks runs with a brace on one knee; a leather wristlet, nearly as heavy as a Roman boxer's cestus, supports the thick right wrist of Sophomore Jerry McFarland, a Negro tackle out of Alabama. Tackle Pat Burke lisps through the gap where most of his front teeth once stood...
...their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their lovers were broken on the wheel, flayed alive, castrated and decapitated. His intriguing daughter Isabella was unhappily married to Edward II of England, a king who would rather drape his arm with "suspect familiarity" around a young workman than em brace his queen. Courtiers, prelates, Lom bard bankers and the rising burghers scrabbled greedily for power...