Word: nevil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Utes had been the cinderella team this year, the only team in the semi-finals not listed among the top ten in current ranking. Texas Western, third-seeded in the tournament, is a strong defensive team with Nevil Shed, 6-8 rebounding...
...generous wit--are, like Shakespeare's standards, centered in that purest of human pleasures, a garden, this one the size of shire, and tended until her recent death by the softly malicious and completely delightful Angela Thirkell. Those writers intelligent enough to acknowledge Mrs. Thirkell's leadership (like Nevil Shute and 'Miss Read') have always enjoyed the quiet success their sound judgment deserved; those rebellious Angries (like John Braine, John Wain and that lot) who have ignored her example have inevitably become eminently unreadable. Their prose becomes barren, sluggish and didactic; their characters tedious; and their plots angular or absurd...
...late Nevil Shute took characters of clay and left them shod with steel. Keith Stewart, hero of Shute's posthumous novel, Trustee from the Toolroom, is unassuming to the point of extinction. Keith is past his prime, hard up, pastily pale and running a little to fat. In an ugly mortgaged home in the London suburb of West Baling, he shares teatime monosyllables with his dumpily comfortable wife Katie. Yet Keith is not a nonentity...
...minutiae of technique will win the reader's respect. In the end, though, it is neither tropic adventures nor miniature marvels that generate the fundamental emotion in Trustee from the Toolroom. That comes from giving a small man a big word-trust-to live up to. It was Nevil Shute's enduring conviction that "the job's the thing,'' and that a job well done makes and proclaims...
...Ronald Knox. d) Nevil Shute. 89. Died. A 46-year-old author (The Myth of Sisyphus) who would have considered the way he died, in a speeding sports car, absurd. His name: a) Nevil Shute. c) Ronald Knox...