Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cocoons of Delusion. Most of the innocents are children who are suddenly shocked by experience into the realization that people have unexpected reservoirs of sordidness and evil. But even more exposed, and perhaps more deeply hurt, are the adult innocents, who have sat out their lives in habitual disappointment or in cocoons of selfdelusion. In one of the best stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated...
Chase's removal of his team after Crimson wingman Dave Abbot had been badly hurt in a run-in with Yale Captain Artie Moher was merely the climax to a contest marred from the start by fighting. Both teams were by that time out for blood and the crowd was readying for battle. Further injuries, or worse, seemed certain...
Editor Townes was asking his bosses as well as his readers. When he took over six months ago, Owners Ed and Jim Scripps had promised Townes free rein. But cautious Publisher Frank W. Power was against crusades; they might hurt business. Townes asked the Scripps Brothers to back him up. When they hedged, he quit. Last week, Townes left town. He will become general manager of the Santa Rosa (Calif.) morning Press-Democrat (circ. 10,396), the afternoon Republican (circ. 2,053) and their radio station...
...heads against a wall there are the ski-jumpers. But ski-jumping isn't as dangerous as it sounds. There are more people killed or injured each year hunting sharks with knives or playing Russian roulette, than in slat sailing. In a recent article Art Devlin claimed jumpers are hurt only once in every thousand jumps, but Lloyds of London is still loath to take any policies in the ski-jumping field...
...hero of this novel is like the title, a trifle bewildered about English syntax but eloquent just the same. He is an old black man in an old black suit, pastor of a poor country church in Natal, and South Africa is seen through his hurt and innocent eyes. Father Stephen Kumalo is a Zulu whom white missionaries redeemed from darkness. But neither he nor his tribe have found peace on earth since the tribal society was destroyed...