Word: clara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poor and yearning little girls are standard fixtures in hardscrabble literature. Most of them, like little Clara Walpole, scheme and claw their way up from a knockabout childhood and finally wear silk dresses and live in the biggest house for miles around. But if Clara seems to be a drearily familiar type, there is a magical naturalistic quality in this book that makes her one of the most pathetically provocative literary heroines of the year...
...sometimes struck Clara that her name had nothing to do with her at all. She felt that it was an ugly, stupid name, and if only she had a prettier one-say, Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...
Strength in Silences. For the past few years, friends and critics alike have waited impatiently for Malraux's own assessment of his career. Last year his first wife, Clara, beat him to the punch by publishing her version of their early years together. "But her picture of the thoroughgoing "misogynist," whose early rebellion had "reserved areas that he could define as it suited him, or according to his own advantage," served largely as a reminder that it was Malraux's version that was really needed...
...100meter and 200-meter breaststroke. And for versatility, there was California's tousle-haired Claudia Kolb, 17, who 1) won the 400-meter individual medley in world-record time, 2) set a second record in the 200-meter medley, 3) swam the breaststroke leg for the Santa Clara Swim Club's victorious 400-meter med ley relay team, and 4) anchored the same club's winning 800-meter freestyle relay team. Asked whether all that swimming wasn't a little much, Claudia shrugged: "It's better than standing around...
...cast of characters begins in 1923 with Charlie Chaplin and Warren G. Harding, and marches on in these four issues through years in which the figures on center stage range from Herbert Hoover to Booth Tarkington to Clara Bow, from Joe Louis to Adolf Hitler to Virginia Woolf, from Douglas MacArthur to Joe McCarthy to George Orwell. Each issue becomes a history of its year, not only tracing the overriding central themes - the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War - but also providing vignettes that help bring people alive...