Word: colder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mavis Gallant. The name has a romantic ring to it, suggesting a pretty girl, sunlight on English countryside and happy endings, possibly during the Battle of Britain. But no modern writer casts a colder eye on life, on death and all the angst and eccentricity in between. A Canadian, Mrs. Gallant has lived in France since World War II. There she produces her lapidary long stories and an occasional dazzling short novel, usually set in Europe. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker. Canada seems about to give her the Governor General's Literary Award...
...good-government movement and started assailing the "bosses." He had what Morris describes as a "genius for moral warfare." The ebullient personality - "the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral" - overwhelmed people; it took them years to get over a fleeting encounter with him. Men of colder blood "grew dependent as lizards upon his warmth...
...some soldiers who were on the icecap up at the North Pole, with the Arctic Survival Team, who came in wearing their arctic survival gear, and they said they had been out to Candlestick Park a couple of nights before watching a night game, and they were colder at Candlestick Park than they were on the icecap...I argued the case with a parka...
There are colder, less hospitable places, of course. The tricks memory plays are usually flattering. But one of the surprises to be found in The Stories of John Cheever is that the stories are almost always better than people remember. Never before has it been possible to see so much of his short work so steadily and so whole. Never before has the received notion of a "typical" Cheever story-a satire on suburbia, based on fading Protestant morality -seemed further from the more complex and entertaining truth. This massive retrospective of 61 stories (selected by Cheever) is not only...
...been a little colder in Hanover, N.H. Saturday, the Harvard field hockey team might have played a different game--on skates. But cleats were the attire of the day, as the Crimson slogged through ankle-deep puddles in the rain, finally suffering a frustrating 2-1 loss to the Big Green at Dartmouth...