Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charlie mostly puts words in motion without putting believable characters or fresh ideas in significant conflict. True, Seymour is a shy, pure knight of conscience with a 20-20 vision of ethics, and he finally tilts fearlessly with his friend Charlie, but the reversal of roles is too belated to be convincing. The open stage is maddeningly unsuitable for Charlie, so that the drawing-room setting seems perched in a furniture salesroom waiting to be price-tagged for clearance...
...Crimson wrestling team, fresh from a mediocre season, charges like the Light Brigade into the heavy cannon at Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships at Franklin and Marshall, starting today...
...strip of "streak-o'-lean" bacon, and a tablespoon of cane syrup. Supper is one slab of cornbread (cold again), rice, and red beans. Prisoners are given a mattress and a blanket upon arrival, to be returned upon release. No uniforms are issued and neither are packages of fresh clothing permitted...
...clotch of books, paper, notes, and typewriter over-flow the desk. Senior ignores them. By now it's routine. He rips a partly-filled page out of the typewritter, plugs in a fresh sheet and starts to type...
Baffling Charm. Author Newby peoples his lively books with rogues and innocents and makes both types fresh and fascinating. In The Picnic at Sakkara, he wittily chronicled the blundering adventures of Edgar Perry, a British innocent at large in King Farouk's Egypt. The baffling charm and evasive malevolence of a restive Egypt have never been better evoked, or with more understanding. In The Barbary Light, his hero is a rogue who has all the equipment needed to be a killer except the killer's instinct - in fact, Owen suffers from immoral flabbiness. Newby, moreover...