Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This second novel by Author Jean (The Quick Years) Ariss, 47, a Californian with an artist-husband and five children, is flawed by her refusal to give proper names to her leading characters. As in a morality play, they are labeled the man, the woman, the father. Another seeming handicap is that the man proves to be a confirmed alcoholic who re-enacts the Lost Weekend gamut from DTs to strait jackets to the shameless cadging of money and sympathy...
...long string of racing successes (Moppies won the 1961 Marathon, the last three Miami-Nassau powerboat races), Bertram was shooting for a new Marathon record of 5 hr. 45 min. when one of his twin 310-h.p. MerCruiser outdrive engines failed halfway around. Eventual winner in the handicap race: August Nigel's 17-ft. outboard-powered runabout, at an average speed of 33 m.p.h. for the trip...
...Kozlov as premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, largest and richest of the 15 Soviet republics. Polyansky is loudly extraverted, urbanely intelligent, shrewdly aggressive-a combination of attributes matched only by Khrushchev himself. If Khrushchev should fall ill or die soon, Polyansky's youth would probably be a handicap, but if the succession struggle were to last for some time, he could well make the grade. Says one Washington official: "He is a shark, the type who would make his move only when Kozlov or somebody like him starts to founder. No matter what happens, Polyansky will come...
...excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited eye disease, he is now, at 62, totally blind, but continues to write. "Blindness is no handicap for a writer of fantasy," he says. "It leaves the mind free and unhampered to explore the depths and heights of human imagination...
...face "the leer of a sex-mad ogre, and worse, far worse, the bloated, unnatural look of the crass commercialist." In his latest example of sincere sex, for which he has already received $320,000 from his publisher and MGM, Wallace has sportingly given himself a heavy handicap: his subject is the men and women who win the Nobel Prize, but Wallace's intellectual giants have feet of such soft clay that they find it difficult to stay upright for longer than a chapter...