Word: pips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bruce should be an example to us all on hour to shorten long passages One example from Dickens suffices. Great Expectations begins. "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit that Pip." The Great Expectation version: "My name is Pip Pirrip," Punchy and to the point...
Great Expectation: Give Pip one expectation and then bring off the pertinent references together in a few pithy chapters. Imagine how much time you'd save--surely enough to real both Hard Time and The Pickwick Paper in one sitting...
...loveliest expression of the season was Don Sutton's line in the Milwaukee clubhouse when the winning pitcher went looking for Shortstop Robin Yount and someone wanted to know how Sutton expected to locate a pip-squeak like Yount in the crush of these burly Brewers. "That's easy," said Sutton. "Robin Yount stands taller than anybody I've ever played with...
Although spinning her tale in fantasy the Princeton professor Oates acknowledges her more serious American roots by evoking shades of Melville and Hawthorne. Oates refers obliquely to the former by means of a character named Pip and her narrator openly corrects "Mr. Hawthorne's" idealistic view of a "humorous" tarred and feathered body. But her minute detailed incredibly dense prose has no American models...
Haider's father-in-law suggests that he join the party, and he does. A major in the SS and an old World War I buddy (Pip Miller) suggests that he join the Nazi officer elite corps and he does. As a member of the SS he could secure the tickets to Switzerland for which Maurice pleads, but he is, by now, too self-intimidated...