Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warning though -- this intensity turned inward, which blinds the soul-searcher to her environment. Each woman considers herself in her freedom to be the lone master of her fate. Not until the end of the novel does reality finally break through the walls of introspection surrounding them, as the spontaneous violence of New York abruptly proves personal deliberation and longterm planning to be less than omnipotent...
...humour of the story. He is identified by the various oppressions inflicted on him by the English, the Dublin Irish, and fate, listed in order of decreasing responsibility and increasing blame. Myles' satire is funniest and most bitter here; on O'Coonassa's first day of school the master beats a new name into him: "Jams O'Donnell." When he gets home his mother explains that such is fate: "It was always seen and written that every Gaelic youngster is hit on his first day of school because he doesn't understand the foreign form of his name. ...There...
...himself by talking Owner Robert Irsay into buying the club for him to run. A onetime assistant coach, Thomas' reputation for finding football talent was so established that he was the first person hired by the expansion Vikings and, later, the Dolphins. He is pro football's master builder, a craftsman of the draft and the trade, the man who picked Fran Tarkenton when scrambling quarterbacks were an apostasy in the N.F.L., and who traded for Paul Warfield when he was supposedly Cleveland's only untradable player. He refers to his system as the "artichoke method." Says...
Flannery O'Connor, the late short-story master from Georgia, once noted that "any fiction that comes out of the South is going to be considered grotesque by the Northern critic, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be considered realistic." At the time-the '50s-it was a convenient arrangement: regionalism provided neat categories for prides and prejudices. But the postwar boundaries could not hold...
...Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. At 62, she reduced a Town Hall audience to tears when she announced her retirement, quoting the Marschallin, who looked at her aging face in the mirror and said: "It is time." In her later years in California she painted, wrote several books, and taught master classes, returning occasionally to do some coaching in London and New York...