Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find an exciting new sense of vocation. A violin note spins out over the hushed audience, "thin and glittering like a gold thread in sunlight . . . the echo felt like a kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense of release shared by boy and reader alike, the boy is ready to abandon his grey world of failing sight for the luminous realm of pure sound...
...Angry Young Men, but his second novel to cross the Atlantic does not look back in anger. It is a lively, funny story, essentially an American-style narrative about how men make good in a bad way in the big city and learn that success in the end is nothing but dust and ashes...
Although the score was relatively low, the attackmen kept play at the Penn end of the field for a large part of the game. They were effective in blocking Quaker clearing efforts and played a deliberate offense, as the Philadelphians employed their zone defense against the Crimson for the first time...
...that seems to have worked well in the brief period it was tried here, was the alternate-side plan set up by the City Council. This temporary plan is still in operation in the rest of the city, and will probably be extended by the Council until the end...
Descendants of the curious first Mr. Halloran, builder of this desirable piece of real estate, now inhabited his world, avoiding as much as possible the outside world of other mortals. Then one day one of their number perceived, in an apparition of the first Mr. Halloran, that the end of the outside world was not far off. Humanity, as an experiment, had failed, and the gods who created it had decided that all on earth save the twelve denizens of the Halloran mansion should perish in a general cataclysm...