Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most interested in analyzing the few experiences he deals with--be they artworks or political powerplays--which contain a grain of original truth in their reflection of contemporary life-trials. Even when reminiscing on his own childhood sports career, Sheed is not concerned with the sweaty playing-field grit of the sports columnist, or the heroicizing rhetoric of Mailer's "King of the Hill." Instead, he examines the extent to which sports made him, an English boy, into an American. He concludes that the socializing effects of the competitions were limited. Everything changes off the field...
...changing landscape is vigorously perceived: the social differentiations between tract housing developments and more wooded lots, plastic hamburger stands moving ever-closer towards the heart of the old city. Dominant metaphors resonate with historical substance. As Rabbit journeys, the theater marquee goes from 2001 to TRUE GRIT to 2001 (returned by popular demand), while Apollo II goes from lunar orbit to landing, to the dark side of the moon and back again...
...generous, open nature is also a vulnerable one; she has had to learn to steel it with stoicism. "People plan and God laughs," she says. But she laughs too?a billowing, enfolding laugh that is all the more warming because it is born not of frivolity but of grit...
...They didn't go trooping off to Reagan. Now there's a general feeling that he's let us down, that the President is turning his back on his old friends to make new ones." Adds one of the "early birds": "I've had to grit my teeth and swallow hard to remain a loyalist...
...Amiable Bear. None of their schemes, however, is any craftier than the author's handling of material that is a bit light-fingered with both Huckleberry Finn and True Grit. An amiable bear of a man whose down-home drawl is deceptively similar to Long Boy's, Joe David Brown, 56, is a native of Birmingham and a former writer and correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Addie Pray is his fifth novel and his third to be sold to the movies (the others: Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling...