Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ready Trap." As the Japanese admiral recalls it, there was tragedy, but no buffoonery. In late 1944, he explains to Student Frazer, the imperial navy was still strong, but it had been pushed back so fast that it was badly disorganized. Just before the Leyte Gulf battle, Shima's force had wild-goose-chased after a supposedly crippled U.S. force. Shima steamed for the fringes of the vast Leyte engagement after other Japanese naval forces had set out, and the necessity for radio silence, he explains, meant that he could not coordinate his strategy or tactics with theirs. Faced...
...white dotted like the clouds. My children appear like the sky. I live with my children in the forest. My children are very much crybabies if their mother leaves them. Thus cry my children: 'Cheb, cheb, cheb.' I sleep high in a tree. When it is late in the afternoon I sing thus: 'Snhocroro, schoncro, schoncro...
...first blink, Boris Morros seemed unlikely for the part. With his late-Picasso haberdashery, borsht-and-bagel accent, and a personality as outgoing as a trombone, he had small chance of being inconspicuous among the grey and shadowy cadres of Soviet espionage. Also, as music director for Paramount theaters and Paramount Studios, later as an independent movie producer, he was a conspicuously successful man in a business that has no passion for anonymity...
...Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author of last season's Broadway near miss, Blue Denim) might seem to have arrived in the twisted-apple orchard a decade too late. But in the seven short stories of this collection, he shows a talent that is not only twisted but robust, humorous and original as well...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar. With Apollonian clarity and Dionysian passion, Greece's late, famed man of letters challenges Homer with a sequel that is a modern epic of adventure, eroticism, and the universal quest for self-knowledge...