Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Literature was conscious of no loss when Britain's Denton Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33. A gaunt, gifted art student, he had been invalided at 20 when a motorist crashed into his bicycle, fracturing his spine. Often unable to paint, scarcely able to walk, he took up his pen and wrote two books of stories, two fictionalized autobiographies of boyhood, a lengthy journal and this brilliant, terrible novel. Published in England in 1950, it received scant attention; but critics have recently recognized Welch's memoir as a minor masterpiece, and it has now been...
Unreasonable Delusions. The most perfect Hemingway hero, unhappily, did not decline as a Hemingway hero should have. Papa grew increasingly gaunt and anxious in his last months. He got upset over trifles, worried that an airline would not accept him with excess baggage, despaired because he was sure he could not pick up his guns at Abercrombie & Fitch after his lawyer had neglected to pay a bill. Gradually, he began to believe that he was being followed by Government agents and that his family and friends had somehow betrayed...
...Quang Nam's mayor was something special too. Slight, gaunt of face behind a thick mustache, Ngo Tuong, 49, was a Popular Forces soldier who had come back home to serve as mayor only last month. Tuong liked to wear a black beret and a camouflage suit in making the rounds of his constituency, was both efficient and remarkably honest. Though he carried a pistol, he disdained a regular Marine guard detail, rightly judging that it would not sit well with his villagers. Anyway, there seemed little danger. Ap Quang Nam had been so thoroughly pacified after the marines...
...prouder of Gideon's impact than Clarence Gideon himself, who was later retried with counsel-and acquitted. Now 55, Gideon is a gaunt gas station attendant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with an unbounded faith in lawyers. "I've seen ignorant white people and Negroes accused of petty larceny," he says, "and if they had a lawyer they'd get six months, but without one they'd get 15 years. I tell you the prisons are full of lifers who wouldn't have got near that much if a lawyer had handled them. I didn...
...bank, a regional version of the World Bank, will fight Asia's crushing poverty by financing such sinews as industry, power, roads and transport. Jetting around the globe, teams led by gaunt Cornelio Balmaceda, the Philippines' Commerce Minister, have raised $936 million in capital for the banking marriage of East and West. Asian governments, which will control the bank, supplied $641 million of that money, the U.S. another $200 million. Europe left the bank shy of its goal of $1 billion in capital by pledging a disappointing $70 million; France and the U.S.S.R. stayed out, and Britain offered...