Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary Britton Miller took stock. She had written five volumes of poems and a rather good novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, a story of a deep attachment between twins. Yet Mary Miller had never produced a sound critical success, had never come close to authoring a bestseller. Was she, after all, just another New England spinster with literary inclinations...
Murder Around the Tree. Most of the second half is a good deal less feminine and less successful. When Writer Bolton switches from memory to action, and from past to present, her pen seems to catch a bit of fuzz, her prose blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release...
...time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides to whirl back to the bloody old 2Oth Century with little Sapphire. All this is Poet Graves's way of saying that to be too good (as were the New Cretans) is just as bad as to be too bad (as people are today;. Cries the Goddess...
Last month I had it good. I was running down at Sunshine Park in Florida and it was nice and warm. Twice a week they'd take me out to the beach and gallop me up and down in the surf. So I played ball with them. I picked up two seconds and a third and then won three...
...According to the regulations voted by the Faculty, a freshman or sophomore in good standing but net on the Dean's List who is absent from his last college exercise before or his, first college exercise after the April recess will be subject to disciplinary action...