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...them Author Moravia tackles one of writing's trickiest problems, telling what happens to a boy in the transition between childhood and manhood. Writers describing this haunting, tragicomic change of life too often bog down in self-pity and autobiography. But Moravia has pared away all egocentric mush from these two hardheaded stories. They have the clarity and bite of a good, dry Orvieto wine...
...Living & the Dead. The Elegies are poetry of a visionary kind that has not been mush practiced since Dante. In the heat of Rilke's vision, life & death are welded together into a world without end. "Life," he explains, must be kept "open towards death." To illustrate his meaning. Rilke speaks to the living in the First Elegy as if he were already dead...
...bowled over by its beehive trade in consumer goods, sparked by innovation, advertising, packaging. Back home he planned a great advertising crusade to teach the people to want and use new products. "We should not surrender before the old custom of living on borsch and mush," he said. He even tried his hand at writing a slogan about soap: "He who does not wash himself several times a day is a candidate for the hospital...
Shepard started about as mush from scratch as a coach can start. He inherited an 18 game losing streak from his predecessor, Bill Barclay, minus Barclay's beat playmaker, Chip Cannon, and best individual player. Walt McCurdy. He also accumulated a bunch of sophomores, none of whom ran much over five-feet eight. Shepard put on a sweatshirt and started trying to discover if he had a team...
...Home.) He kept plugging, finally recorded Riders and some of his others at his own expense. Then Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3, 1948) sandaled into the act. He heard Riders and liked it. The song had hair on its chest, and would be hard to croon with mush in the mouth. Ahbez took the music to Burl Ives, who quickly recorded it for Columbia. By the time Bing Crosby got it onto wax for Decca last month, and Vaughn Monroe had done a big, first-class production job for Victor, Riders was roweling hard...