Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Images of Truth, by Glenway Wescott. The author, one of the U.S.'s best nonwriting novelists (he wrote The Pilgrim Hawk), ends a long silence with a fine collection of critical portraits of fellow authors-Katherine Anne Porter, Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and others...
...than the vision of Arabs and Israelis-or for that matter, Arabs and Arabs-rattling rockets at each other. But after a twelve-year limitation on major military aid to any Middle Eastern state, the U.S. broke the pattern by announcing that it would sell Israel a consignment of Hawk missiles. The professed reason: to offset Communist military aid to the Arab nations. Actually, the situation has not substantially changed since the 1960 pact between Nasser and the Soviet Union, which gave Egypt 60 Ilyushin jet bombers, several squadrons of new MIG-21 fighters and 500 T-54 tanks...
Like the pre-Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott is a somewhat melancholy yet tantalizing literary figure. His novels-including The Grandmothers (1927) and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940)-earned him a special reputation as a prose craftsman and subtle prober of the wheels and springs of emotion that turn the clock of character. But he has produced little fiction (only five volumes since 1924) and, though he has started some projects, has published nothing for the past 17 years. Through all that time, a faithful coterie of Wescott admirers has continued to hope not only...
...defiant and pathetic. More than 70% of its 1,700,000 people scratch a living from the collectivized soil; most of Albania's farm villages and mountain towns have changed little in the last century. Garbage flows through an open gutter cut in the middle of narrow streets; hawk-nosed men sip Turkish coffee in dim cafés while their women shoulder heavy loads of wood and barrels of scarce water. Along with the traditional poverty are Communist posters plugging Dictator Enver Hoxha's slogan: "Build socialism with a pickax in one hand...
...Belgian Cyclist Rik Van Looy, haughty, hawk-nosed world road-racing champion; the rich Tour de France, which Van Looy-although competing for the first time-was the overwhelming favorite to win. After forcing a record pace for the first half of the 22-day, 2,656-mile grind. Van Looy was knocked out of the Tour when a close-crowding photographer's motorcycle struck a rock and catapulted into his bicycle, spilling the 28-year-old Belgian into the path of 19 other racers. Said a rival racer: "Whoever wins now, his victory won't be complete...