Word: hammerism
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While the police tried to piece together what had happened, Rescue went to work. It seemed to be an attempted murder, and then an attempted suicide. A man had apparently attacked his ex-wife with a hammer, beating her severely, and then had drunk something to kill himself. She was sprawled in the center of the floor, her head, chest, arms and legs covered with lacerations and bruises. He had collapsed a few feet away. Both were unconscious but still alive...
...Lenz led the Cambridge cindermen's effort by chucking the hammer 197 ft., 6 in. Saturday to come in second behind Fitchburg State's Ed Healy...
Further Harvard strength came in the hammer throw, where Crimson hurlers Ed Ajootian and Tom Lenz placed third and fifth respectively. The especially strong competition in this event prevented a better showing by the Harvard contingent, as Bruin Tim Bruno placed second behind Dartmouth's Ken Jansson, who won the event with a heave...
...METAPHOR which Gardner places like a frame around his book acts in this way. On the first page he tells a story from Norse myth: Thor, Woden and the gods must fight off the trolls, the forces of chaos, but the only weapon remaining to them is Thor's hammer. For us, Gardner says, that hammer is art. Writers must take it up and strike, before the Gotterdammerung. The tale acts as a light, disarming way to begin a book with such a solemn title. But from the first pages forward Gardner relies on the logical force of this tale...
...Gardner lacks the formal power, the rhetorical skill which Arnold employed to make the abstract palatable and comprehensible. Gardner's book is structureless. The divisions between chapters are arbitrary, and just about the only overall element of the book that seems planned is the appearance of Thor's hammer at start and finish...