Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estate manager is Nick Gutsue, a sales administration student at Woodbury College who was among the first group of Ryan's undergraduates more than two years ago. Gutsue may get his degree next June, but having grown accustomed to the style of life as a happy hired hand, he intends to stay on permanently...
Twitching Thread. In The Valley of Bones, No. 7 in his series, Powell picks up the life of Nicholas Jenkins, his all-seeing narrator, shortly after the outbreak of World War II; it ends about a year later after the fall of Dunkirk. At 35, Old Etonian Nick is a somewhat overage second lieutenant assigned to backwater posts in Ireland and Wales, where he passes his time studying anti-gas warfare and reading Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle...
...Nick encounters all manner of odd types in the army. He is linked to them all by the warp of a social fabric that Powell understands as well as any writer now working, and by the long arm of coincidence, which Powell nudges more shamelessly than any novelist since Dickens. When a character in The Valley of Bones moves, another character inevitably twitches at the end of a fictional thread that may stretch all the way back to A Question of Upbringing, the first in his series. Nick has a casual conversation with a fellow officer, and a memory floats...
Patterned Spectacle. An officer sitting with his back to Nick suddenly swivels in his chair-and turns out to be Widmerpool, that inspired clown who appears in all his novels as Powell's satiric image of England's "new man." Some characters will presumab y never reappear. Others, notably Lieut. Odo Stevens, who falls in love with another of Nick's sisters-in-law, will obviously glide into view again in later chapters of the saga...
...white turkey like you will be easy to spot," a policeman warned New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch as he started down Harlem's notorious 111th Street. "So if anybody bothers you, tell them you are a welfare worker delivering a check...