Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday could not have survived. After all, it was the second biggest daily in the U.S., topped only by Manhattan's other morning tabloid, the New York Daily News (1,915,000 daily, 2,000,000 Sunday). But in that very placement-the News first, the Mirror a laggard second-lay part of the reason for the Mirror's death. For all of its 39 years the Mirror sought to copy the front runner, an ambition it was totally unequipped to achieve...
...Negroes burst from a sweltering church and growled: "We ought to shoot every damned one of them." And there was the little Negro girl, splendid in a newly starched dress, who marched out of a church, looked toward a massed line of pistol-packing cops, and called to a laggard friend: "Hurry up, Lucille. If you stay behind, you won't get arrested with our group." Finally, outlined against the flames that shot 150 ft. in the air, there was the mass of Negroes barring with their bodies and with a rain of rocks, bottles and bricks the firemen...
...auctioneer, Peter Cecil Wilson, 49. Wilson has sold 28,000 paintings in his career, and last week he went about his work with the same persuasive urbanity that has made Sotheby's the biggest art auction house in the world. Wilson does not joke or coax or subject laggard bidders to reproachful looks. "The cunning of Wilson," says one colleague, "is that there is no cunning...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. A wry, humorous, uncommonly good first novel about a North Carolina country girl who does not quite know how to land her laggard suitor, and who, as she learns, finds error a trial...
...flurry of prepublication testimonials and press attention (Harper's magazine will devote most of its April issue to printing the entire novel), Author Price's book is a brief, appealing, generally unpretentious tale of a young girl who does not quite know how to land her laggard suitor, and who, as she learns, finds error a trial. It is a good first novel, masterfully put together, and it deserves its jackpot luck, wrong reasons notwithstanding...