Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fast's mellowing is even reflected in his historical fiction. His last novel before The Immigrants was The Hessian, which he cites as his best. It is not a story of heroes and fighters at all, but the tale of how a Hessian mercenary in the Revolutionary War, a mere boy, is tracked down, captured, tried and hung. It is a story of pointlessness and tragedy. The boy who dies is no menace; he is simply pathetic. The people who execute him are not shapers of history; they are its victims...
...Fast's message is perhaps simply that people should think more about what they are doing--things are not always what they seem to be. There is a parallel to be drawn between Dan Lavette and the country he helped build, when Fast says of his character...
...Fast, sitting at Houghton Mifflin looking out a windows at the traffic on Boston's Park Street, went on to extend his metaphor...
...home outside Los Angeles, his solar panels over his head, Fast meditates and continues to write, putting new twists in the cliche of American history. And away below Beverly Hills, traffic hums and on bad days the smog hangs heavy, as a city of immigrants keeps reaching for a lost dream...
After the game, several Harvard boosters said they were happy about the team effort against what Nancy Levin, halfback, termed, "the best team around." Levin also called the game "very physical and fast...