Word: cunningness
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In pro football, then, the spectator sympathetically participates in a heightened form of existence. During the brief hours of the game he sees the base matter of everyday life lifted up, purified, clarified, intensified: idealized figures, stronger, swifter, more cunning than ordinary men, fight a bruising battle in a make...
"I've been a wicked ol' man," confesses Thorpe. "But one thing I've never done is rob anyone of money." Money, he says, was never his aim. "It was the sheer thrill of moving in and out of the trees and bushes, the excitement of never...
Kingman Brewster, in the standard interpretation of Mayday at Yale, emerges as a sort of Faust figure, a corrupt, conniving academic who sold his soul to the devil for an easy out. Very few people have compared him to Marguerite, the naive, innocent young girl whom Mephistopheles lures into damnation...
The efforts were prudent, because Gore, 62, and a veteran of 32 years of political strife, counterattacked with more gusto than Brock, 39, seemed able to muster. Old Albert stumped hard, reminded Tennesseans of the bread-and-butter benefits he had fought for, and held his ground with courage, if...
Social comment was never far from Guston's figurative work: his 1946 Night Children may be caught in a dream, but they live in a slum. The new paintings attack more broadly. His Klansmen are not to be taken as images of a specific present threat (who now takes...