Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Conservatory Chorale--Handel's Alexander's Feast, Church of the Advent, Mt. Vernaon and Brimmer St., Boston...
Sleepless Nights tosses and turns on such hard, solitary judgments. Mary McCarthy comes to mind and, oddly, so does the Ernest Hemingway of A Moveable Feast, who said that his book could be regarded as fiction though it also might throw light on autobiographical fact. Hardwick provides a similar safeguard when Elizabeth, her novel's unaltered ego, says to herself, "Why didn't you change your name? Then you could make up anything you like, without it seeming to be true when...
...starts early in the morning in Hopkinton when runners of every shape, size, sex and mentality show up for the pre-race rituals--stretching, taping, slathering on the atomic balm, and (hopefully) unloading part of the carbohydrate feast of the night before. Warning for you prospective runners; the lines start forming for the john...
Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white brought up on a Depression dirt farm in Georgia, fearful of landlords, Government, floods, of life itself. Maturity has brought courage, but the shudders of childhood remain. So does the gallery of odd personae who enliven his latest book of personal essays, Blood and Grits...
...ends as the prisoner of an illiterate jungle madman who makes Tony read Dickens aloud to him for the rest of his life. Waugh's most savage literary revenge for past hurts occurs in Black Mischief when Basil Seal unwittingly dines on his girlfriend during a cannibal feast...