Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Joyce, Strick doesn't follow a conventional, chronological narrative line. We are accustomed to flash-backs, but not to such brief flashes as those Strick introduces in his first scene: at the Martello tower, Buck Mulligan says "The aunt thinks you killed your mother," and Stephen sees, and we see, his mother's deathbed, an image that recurs in the drunken hallucinations of Nighttown. Except for Resnais's films, we are not at all accustomed to flash-forwards, and Strick uses them liberally: as Bloom leaves home in the morning, he imagines Blazes Boylan, his wife Molly's lover...
John Levin was unable to find a tarnish in the polished game of Princeton ace Les Buck and bowed 6-1, 7-5 at number one. Bernie Adelsberg lost speedily, 6-4, 6-3, in the second slot. Previously undefeated Rocky Jarvis (four) and fellow sophomore Steve Devereux (six) also were surprising straight set losses...
...TIME IS NOON by Pearl Buck. 383 pages. John...
...Pearl Buck, 74, is the most durable of a class of doughty women writers-also including Edna Ferber and Faith Baldwin-who flourished in the '20s and '30s, weathered the '40s, and have been losing much of their audience ever since. They appealed to women who had got the vote and, later, the household appliances that set them free to ponder Womanhood. What they wanted to hear was how tough it all had been, and no one told them more relentlessly than Author Buck, who, in her 32 novels and obsessive memoir writing, has ennobled the distaff...
...Pearl Buck's outlook owes more to experience than art. The eldest daughter of missionaries in China, she watched her "God-drunk" father ignore his wife and deprive his children in the name of the Lord, and worse, saw her mother's love for her father turn to silent hatred. In her autobiographical novel The Time Is Noon, written over 25 years ago but unpublished until now, it is business as usual in the hard-labor camp by the hearth. The setting is not the Anhwei of The Good Earth but a village in Pennsylvania. The young heroine...