Word: morrises
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Willie Morris, in his autobiography North Toward Home, tells of a sportscaster called the Dutchman who was Yazoo City, Mississippi's only link with professional sports. The Dutchman verbally embellished his radio accounts of baseball games and was immensely popular.
The current, barely concealed antagonism between President Nixon and Vice President Agnew is a reminder that the nation's top two officials seldom get along. That is not the way it was supposed to be. The founding fathers not only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried...
Pithy Style. Curtis, 44, has come a long way covering caviar and its consumers. She started her newspaper career as a women's reporter for the Columbus Citizen (now Citizen-Journal), and joined the Times in 1961, becoming women's news editor in 1965. She is known for...
When we last saw old, ornery Floyd Warner (in Wright Morris' last novel, Fire Sermon), he had just lost his present in the form of an orphaned and vaguely related child he was taking care of, and his past, in the form of a fire that consumed all the...
It is all pure Morris: the best (the sidelong wit and the marvelously supple prose, now gold, now grit) along with the worst (the wooden dialogue, the coy hints at profound meanings that never quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels...