Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represent decree will complete the self-perpetuating system of control which already exists in Brooks House. The Cabinet already appoints itself, since the new committee heads are appointed by the outgoing ones. Since the war, on the other hand, the entire organization has elected the Brooks House officers from among the Cabinet nominees, and now the Cabinet has assumed even this function, declaring the membership unfit to vote...
...other hand, a Crimson defeat would plunge the Big Three race into a three-way tie and would sink the varsity into fifth place and the second division of the League. Win or lose, this will have been Wilson's most successful team, and this season's record will have been the finest achievement of a Crimson five in over ten years...
Wyman follows with an essay on the West Coast anti-academics (the Beat and breathless generation)--a hand-dangling series of observations on San Francisco press agentry. Wyman, and a good many of Audience's poets, seem mildly awed at the energy of the Beat mystique--and profoundly amused by jazz-and-poetry miscegenation and technological bogeymen...
...nasty bourgeois parents refuse to acknowledge the child. Then the pilot is reported dead; from this point, things take an upward turn, and it develops that the pilot is not dead after all. Pilot and parents come to ask for the girl's hand and reparer, if memory serves, notre mauvaise action. Everything turns out better than anyone would have dared dream...
Youthful (31) Novelist Cicellis unravels this labyrinthine plot-skein with sure and steady hand. Her prose is as light-intoxicated as the air of her native Greece, 3ut her vision of life has a dark, existential Dathos. The book's title is inspired by an image from the radio studio-ten seconds to air time-and it implies that all of life s an absurd, hectic, fragmentary rehearsal :or living that paradoxically ends just at the moment that a man thinks himself ready to begin...