Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snobs & Farm Girls. Stephen Crane struck the first modern note with tight-lipped stories that anticipated Hemingway and all the little Hemingways. Out West, Frank Norris and Jack London spoke up bluntly. Norris, remarks Critic Brooks, "had Zola's nose for the odor cf stale bedding and of creosote"; London wrote rowdy stories in which "one heard the perpetual crunch-crunch of bones...
...Logan Pearsall Smith, who thought to win immortality through "a perfect phrase"; Gertrude Stein, who "looked and walked like a corpulent monk" and ended by writing baby talk. But with the big fish, Brooks stumbles almost as badly as he did with Hawthorne and Melville in earlier volumes. Stephen Crane's stories and Dreiser's novels ask for far more rigorous analysis than Brooks pauses to give them...
Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 officially becomes Mayor of Cambridge today when the City Council meets for the first time in the new year. DeGuglielmo replaces Edward A. Crane '35, who, while he bows out of the mayor's post, retains his seat on the City Council...
...Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel, adapted by Writer-Director John Huston; with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin (TIME...
...Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel, handsomely translated by Writer-Director John Huston into one of the best war films ever made; with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin (TIME...