Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruelty of man. But Algren spoils it from evident fear of falling into false sentimentality. He falls right into another kind of falsity. Says the boy Algren: "I want to see the face of Gawd." Facetious spelling gets the adult Algren off no theological or esthetic hook and simply suggests that the child who fathered the man Algren (and who believed in God, not Gawd) was wiser than his wisecracking offspring...
...windows, one toilet, no towels, no drinking water-that is what he gets. But 200 oldtime commuters (average age: 55) who prefer such rigors to taking buses or their own cars ride the 36-mile commuter run from New Jersey's bedroom suburbs to North Bergen, where buses hook up with Manhattan. Last year the line collected $47,289 in revenues from passengers-and lost $200,000 on them. Former owners did everything to shoo off the commuters, even to removing newer cars and replacing them with 50-year-old cars -but all to no avail. Last month...
...such, mean much to them-that mother was a local scandal as a woman of loose morals (which is partly why the adults accepted the kids' story that mother was "sick") and no two of the children had the same father. "Dad" is a racecourse spiv named Charlie Hook who has given them nothing but his name. When he tells them that mother "was an 'ore-a bleeding tart," he blasphemes the religion of the Sacred Mother. He had to be destroyed...
...tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does not have to believe in fairies, however, to give cold credence to the awful reality of Gloag's matriolatrous, patricidal tribe of tots...
...most exciting races of the afternoon will be in the distances, where Yale's Bobby Mack, Army's Bill Straub, and Brown's Dave Farley will hook up in either the mile or two-mile. The Crimson's trio of Eddie Meehan, Bill Crain, and John Ogden will have to improve on their recent performances if they hope to place...