Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October Country, by Ray Bradbury. Nineteen stories by a leading horror-and science-fiction practitioner, ranging from satyrs to satire (TIME...
...OCTOBER COUNTRY (306 pp.)-Ray Bradbury-Ballantine Books ($3.50; paperback...
Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...
...Crimson will run from a T-formation, with sophomore Jack Hennessy calling signals. Captain Ray Henry will start at right halfback with two sophomores, Al Steiner and Vic McGuire, playing left halfback and fullback. Shepard calls Steiner the team's best runner...
...folks," says Mr. Ray in a voice scraped raw with song, "are more generous to me than I deserve." The house shrieks indignantly, because this is practically abdication; but finding that its idol is only introducing his tribute to the band ("not only very wunnerful musicians but each one my very dear friend"), it roars obedient acclaim, and the band rise to their feet with the sulky air of men who know that they are only another man's gimmick. For Mr. Ray's gimmick is to affect a touching humility before the gifts divinely bestowed...