Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When disaster causes the familiar ground to shudder beneath the feet of a child, a neurotic is sometimes born, or a writer, and often both. Mary McCarthy became a writer. Now 44 and looking down at the fallen arches of the years, Novelist-Essayist McCarthy has told some true tales about herself which on other lips might be mistaken for nostalgic prattle. The wary reader might also be scared by the admission that some of these stories have appeared in The New Yorker-which specializes in such stuff to the point where its pages are as snarled up with...
However, the number of applications has also fallen off this year, Henry attributed the decrease of about 200 to a drop in the number of scholarship applicants. In addition, the ten dollar fee required of all applicants may have discouraged some...
...carefree '20s came Gene Austin, asweet-voiced tenor whose story was evocatively told last week on NBC-TV's Goodyear Playhouse. Millions of televiewers had never heard of him, but other millions (over 40) had grown up and fallen in and out of love listening to him sing on records or radio. After thumping a piano in brothels around the country, then touring in vaudeville, Gene began recording, and chiefly between 1924 and 1930 sold 86 million records. Barrel-shaped but still velvet-throated at 56, Tenor Austin, singing the sound track, brought back the nostalgic old daze...
...Alpine is slowly revealed as a man whose aspirations are several light-years ahead of his performance. He works hard, but cannot resist stealing from the till. Then Morris discovers that Frank is one of the two robbers who held him up. Worst of all, his daughter Helen has fallen in love with the new clerk. Morris fires him, but Frank comes back, dogged, penitent. In the end, by way of ultimate expiation, Frank gradually changes, and step by step becomes more and more like the grocer, assuming his burdens and his fate...
...drop his first name) grouped himself with T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce as one of "the men of 1914"--four young writers assembled under the vague banner of neo-classicism. Yet Lewis, despite his skills as a painter, satirical writer and critic, has long since fallen into a relative obscurity beside his illustrious contemporaries...