Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malamud's own case is less clear. Ever since The Assistant and his collection of stories The Magic Barrel, which won the National Book Award in 1959, Malamud has been recognized as a unique voice in U.S. literature. He catches his vulnerable characters in lurid movement and mid-passion-as if frozen in the light of a signal flare. His ear for Jewish idiom is unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive...
Harvard ground out yardage in this fashion for another minute or two. Then Bassett said some magic word, and the entire middle of the Tiger line stepped aside and former a corridor for the Crimson quarterback to dash through. The defensive secondary closed in, 13 yards downfield on the Princeton 15, Harshbarger then tried another of his off-tackle specialties and gained eight yards...
...Kind of Magic, Ferber...
...They are an attractive and talented pair, but the Lunts in their heyday could not have saved this one. So many men's-room jokes to memorize. So many interludes of leaden-footed fantasy to plod through. If A New Kind of Love didn't take the magic out of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Newman are odds-on to become the sweetest little old couple in Hollywood...
...Kind of Magic, Ferber...