Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alongside the practical physics belongs Parry's fierce concentration. He spends as much time just thinking about his shot as fondling it in the putting circle. Parry spent many of his nights alone in his ascetic bedroom, the lights dim. his weighty frame slack on the bed. From his tape recorder trickled the soothing sound of his own voice: "Keep low, keep back, keep your movement fast across the circle. Fast, now! Fast! Fast! And beat them! Beat them all!" Parry is convinced that this nocturnal rite adds inches to his tosses...
...Longfellow, a selection from her letters and journals, gives a few clues to Fanny's dim view of Longfellow's suit. For one thing, she already had a more interesting mind than his. She was well read and neither life nor people fooled her. At 19 she could look back uneasily on "childhood, innocence and ignorance, before the down is rubbed off and the skeleton in all things revealed, and that fiend Doubt become our fireside companion." A bit morbid, perhaps, but still more acute than anything young Henry had yet written. She could also be cattily tart...
...store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with a shade of some ersatz material," etc.). Author Stafford is best where her heart is, in fictitious Adams. Colo., a town she loves and hates in about equal measure...
...early October. A request by the Young Republican Club to invite vice-President Nixon to a morning rally on the campus was turned down by Samuel T. Arnold, provost of the University, because the noise "might be very disruptive to classes." The Brown Daily Herald took a very dim view of this and felt the Young Republicans should have protested the decision. But as Lewis explained, "If you are bringing a major speaker here, the University must know all about it before he can come...
...sissylike as it is. Didn't I tell you to copy Dreiser? You're damned right I did. And why? Did you think about that? Did you? To get you out of that damned Proust style.' " Lowney, who only got past high school, takes a dim view of Proust, whom she calls "Frowst." Nor does she think much of "Kafkia" (Kafka), "Walter Stevens" (Wallace Stevens) or "Die-lane Thompson" (Dylan Thomas...