Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Fidelman-half tragic hero, half Yiddish joke-has ranked among Malamud's finest double characters since he began to appear over a decade ago in assorted short stories. Now Malamud presents him in a brilliant full-length exercise in slapstick Angst...
Cohesion, however, need not preclude a little eclecticism. It has long been my intention to compile, someday, an encyclopedia of plot formulas, so arranged that a mere gloss would be sufficient to reduce even the shaggiest tale to several digits, say a "234 with a half-twist." Thankfully no such volume yet exists, for whole weeks might be lost in the effort to enumerate Good Art It, which far from being plotless, abounds with the treasured moments of myriad plots. On short count, the following old dependables seem to have resurfaced for the occasion: (a) slightly neurotic actress has stormy...
Predictably, Harvard's heavies have been seeded number two behind the powerful Penn boat which beat them by a length and a half in the Adams Cup race last week. It was the Crimson's first lost to a college crew since...
...probable reason for the Big Green's lack of success is the scarcity of players from Maryland and Long Island. Only two of the Indians live in Maryland and three on Long Island, while people from these two places make up almost half the rosters of most league teams...
...think--I think that a recording might be arranged." He laughed very hard, then coughed. The gasping started again. He stood up, making horrible noises. I stared at him. The black chick gave him a hand and finally he stopped. She kept snorting, half-laughing. She was afraid...