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...refrain from doing. Here, for example, is a novel about three characters. Warren, Arthur and Junie, who set up platonic housekeeping together, squabble amiably, seek work, vacation at the seashore and, in various ways, find love. Presumably, such a book would have to be filled with novelistic bravado to lift it above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack, the atmosphere is already painfully tense. The challenge for the author is to keep everybody's emotions-his own, his protagonists' and the reader...
...piano, an unseen chorus blowing like the wind over solos and ensemble numbers alike, tunes that demand alternately a whisper and a belt, and lyrics that stick so close to life in its physical and emotional details as to leave no room either for clever allusions or technical bravado. The long and the short of it is that they're new (at least in the romantic world of Broadway success stories where writing the finest popular songs of the day counts for nothing), they're different, and they're here...
Their appeal is to bravado. A state of war exists between them and the police, whom the Panthers always call "pigs." In Seattle and Brooklyn, police have been ambushed by snipers close to Panther hangouts. A pair of Panthers are being held as suspects in the fire bombing of a McCarthy-for-President center in San Francisco. Two weeks ago, Panthers cradling rifles invaded a Seattle high school where Negro students were terrorizing whites. Other Seattle Panthers shook down students for protection money in another school. Federal law officers have a strong hunch that some Panthers augment their membership dues...
Even this grisly story is lightened by comic touches. Charley's family gathers gloomily around the radio and hears Gabriel Heatter, the doom-laden commentator, warn "of dreaded pyorrhea." On another occasion, Charley, in adolescent bravado, adds "the suicide caper to his repertoire of small talk, using it to fascinate women." Alas, it only bores them. As a companion piece to Factory, the story sharply emphasizes Sheed's overall theme: the harmful consequences of clutching at visions of the past, whether they are mythical but life-sustaining visions like Jimmy's or real but death-dealing ones...
...moment of bravado spurred by another Sports Illustrated article which appeared just after the Los Angeles race and still leaned toward Penn, Dave Higgins '69, Bow man on the team said, "If we would have known there would be so much garbage about Four Inches (the margin of victory) we would have beaten them by a foot...