Word: cress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRESS DELAHANTY (311 pp.) - Jessamyn West-Harcourt, Brace...
...first big-name novel of the new year shapes up as a bookstore hit and a literary hit or miss. In Cress Delahanty, Jessamyn West (The Friendly Persuasion, The Witch Diggers) camps on a familiar theme, the growing pains of a lively, sometimes lonely adolescent. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for January, Cress is episodic in form, and never takes a deep enough drag on its subject to give anyone a sharp sense of reality, but as a kind of filter-tipped "Life with Daughter," it makes engaging light reading...
...boned, twelve and tenderhearted, Crescent Delahanty lives on a Southern California ranch, but spends her finest hours with King Arthur and Shelley. "The day dies, its burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing in her notebooks ("The Poems of Crescent Delahanty, Volume III"); there she strives for something starker and more modern, e.g., "You do not have to wipe the noses of your dreams...
...president of the Tuesday Club of Pottawattamie, Ind. It was she who had persuaded the colonel to organize a Woman's League for Democratic Action among the Okinawan ladies, and to suggest model menus for the league's meetings (chicken aspic and salmon loaf garnished with water cress, fruit compote and other delicacies...
Discovery of this spiritual intangible, however, provided Crimson followers with little solace for the team's fifth straight defeat this season. Saturday's game, expect for the second-half revival, followed the pattern of previous lessee quite closely. Harvard did not capitalize on its breaks: Holy Cress...