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Stephen Goodwin's "Scratch" contrasts with the tightly drawn plot of "A Common Mistake." The story meanders from a description of a river, to a poker game, to a quarrel between two men over money, to violence over a pool game. Structurally, "Scratch" is a terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard...
...when he sat at the head of the table at his sister's house. "It was intermittent solace which he welcomed but which he was in the end always glad to escape. Now there was no escape." He learns gradually that his wife is a "woman." They quarrel and make up over a midnight snack: "They went to the bathroom and got their teeth. They went down to the sitting-room and ate large pieces of cake...
During this period, Marina recalls, Oswald's personality changed for the worse. He beat Marina at least once, criticized her, ordered her about, even demanded that she run his bath. She told Ruth, after one quarrel: "I often feel as if I am caught between two fires -mezh dvukh ognei. This is not the first time." Says Ruth: "She meant these fires to be her sense of loyalty and her sense of what was right to do." Oswald also became increasingly secretive. He rented a post office box under the name of "A. Hidell," wrote to U.S. Communist headquarters...
Stuart Davis says he doesn't see why a jury, when it likes a picture very much, shouldn't say so. "Quarrel with the jury itself if you disagree with their choice," he adds, "but don't quarrel with the institution of expressing ideas." Alberto Giacometti gladly took his Guggenheim Grand Prize. But even he had some reservations on being first: "Nothing is absolute in art. You cannot say this painting is worth 100 points, this painting 80, this one 50. It's not a pistol-shooting contest, fortunately...
Nasser's Kiss. Nasser's reaction was equally militant. "For the sake of Palestine," he told the Arab world, "we are ready to meet with those with whom we quarrel, and to sit with those against whom we strive!" Observers of the summit could scarcely believe their eyes. Arab leaders who have been actively trying to cut each other's throats were suddenly enveloped in each other's arms. Saudi Arabia's King Saud, who once spent $5,300,000 trying to procure Nasser's assassination, was embraced and kissed...