Word: readers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Trozzolo must consider, I have to assume, that a man who devotes his life to the spiritual guidance of his fellow men (Spellman, Sheen, Gushing) lacks the perseverance of such reality facers as Messrs. Dio, Anastasia, Luciano...
...more lakes: the New York Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Harrison E. (for Evans) Salisbury; Look's Editorial Director Daniel D. (for Danforth) Mich; Humorist (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) Max Shulman; Sig Mickelson, CBS's vice president in charge of news; Reader's Digest Editor (and founder) DeWitt Wallace; and CBS's chief Washington correspondent, North Dakota-born A.(for Arnold) Eric Sevareid, onetime reporter for the Minneapolis Journal and Minneapolis Star. The newsman-named lakes will keep cartographic company with such sky-blue waters as Winnibigoshish (meaning "miserable, wretched, dirty water...
...fact that her wicked uncle, Governor John Winthrop, seems determined to run the Massachusetts Bay colony without her advice. Of course, "a provoking lass she was, [with her] hair black as a wicked Spaniard's. There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly modern, interfaith point of view among the heretic-hunting Puritans; and among the schismatics of prerevolutionary New England...
...dialogue there are enough "prithees," "goodwives," and "forsooths" to clog the collective gullet of The Lambs' club. As for the problem of delineating character, it is solved simply. Characters express emotion by changing color-from pink to grey, scarlet, dull red and "glistening" chalk white, until the fascinated reader feels like the chameleon, which is said to become a nervous wreck when nudged across a plaid bedspread...
...most forlorn is Floyd, until he improbably makes it up with his wife and Ophelia, ready to live happily ever after on his borrowed time. This is like preparing the reader's palate for hemlock and serving him Postum. Author Hauser has symbollixed up her main character so thoroughly that it is never clear whether he is the old Adam, the fool-in-Christ, or just plain fool. Author Hauser has a sharp eye and sure words for the homeliest of scenes, e.g., "an empty clothesline strung with rain pearls." Her novel is best when her people are worst...