Word: nick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opera House has missed only two seasons: 1892-93, when the opera house was gutted by fire, and 1897-98, when the company was being reorganized. On two occasions, in 1948 and again in 1956, the Met has canceled seasons during angry labor disputes, only to rescind in the nick of time when the opposing sides came to terms. But last week the Met's big black stage door on 40th Street was locked tight again. This time the Met insisted that its gesture was not mere negotiating histrionics, and that it would take a near miracle to open...
What does not bear thinking about is what is going to happen. A Hemingway character does not make things happen; things happen to him. Hemingway's people often seem like masochistic spectators of their own doom. In The Killers, Nick Adams rushes to the boardinghouse room of the ex-prizefighter Ole Andreson to warn him that two gangsters are in town to kill him. "There isn't anything I can do about it," says Ole Andreson. lying on his bed and turning his face fatalistically to the wall. There isn't anything any Hemingway character...
...internal discipline than Faulkner, who has ruined half his books with careless rhetorical obscurity, and more personal integrity than Fitzgerald, who potboiled and drank away the greatest natural gifts of the three as a novelist. Unlike Faulkner and Fitzgerald, Hemingway rarely dealt with the American scene after his early Nick Adams stories of hunting and fishing in the West. Internationally, Hemingway belonged with Eliot, Yeats and Joyce as one of the prime shapers of modern literature, but temperamentally he was more akin to that roving intellectual foreign legion of Malraux, Camus and Koestler, who sent back communiques from...
...defeat and "the evil-smelling emptiness" of death. It stirs memories of pleasure and desire, "of sunshine and salt water, of food, wine, and making love." Wherever he went, whatever he did, the fate Hemingway yearned for was deceptively simple and impossibly serene-it was "the good place" Nick Adams found on The Big Two-Hearted River: "He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs. It was all back of him. Now it was done. He was very tired. He had made his camp. He was settled. Nothing could touch...
...winning boat contained Peter Higginson, Brian Catlin, Jim Adkins, Lloyd Dahman, John Lyden, George Simmons, Miles Walsh, and Nick Carrera. The crew raced in Eliot's new shell--some ten years newer than the newest of the other House boats--and now plans to spend this summer racing abroad...