Word: reals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dead-end conversations, groping their way circularly past each other through muddled clouds of private thought and uncertain motive. In this first novel, his descriptions of hotels, restaurants, odd corners of small towns and the seedy people who inhabit them, haunt the mind's eye. Yet Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum. Perhaps because Jones has caught lobsters, sold boats, worked on newspapers and taught school, his showy invasion of the private terrors that lurk just below the surface of apparently calm minds seems somehow fresh-and far removed...
...South American country, sounds like the inevitable background for one more pale carbon copy of The Ugly American. Classified communiques pop up like toast at the breakfast table, a recording device is hidden in a tie clip, new leaders are found by a spin-the-bottle technique, and the real rapport between nations rests on a Jellolike foundation of friendship between Latifundia's President and the American ambassador. Despite the apparently insurmountable handicap of so familiar a scenario, Robert Wool has managed to produce a finely written first novel that explores the personality of a South American nation while...
This "explanation" should be considered before concluding that the people who sat in yesterday are simply incorrigible wreckers. The explanation is no explanation at all. If the Administration cannot present real arguments for closed Faculty meetings, then the rules should be changed, and such meetings as the one scheduled for yesterday should be open to students. And no one should be surprised if, in the meantime, the Faculty's rules are not entirely respected...
Winthrop has picked up hockey victories over Eliot, by forfeit, over Kirkland, 3-1, and trounced Eliot in "A" squash, 4-1. These successes have been a real shot in the arm for Winthrop's intramural program after a dismal fall season, during which athletic secretary Joe Mullin's teams, through no fault of Mullin's, picked up two sevenths and one ninth place finish in the league competition...
Less excitement is being generated by the squash competition, but Quincy's athletic secretary, Doug Bromley, said, "We have three outstanding boys in Bruce Price, Rick Barton, and Dave Patterson. They're real good ones, and we expect to see a lot of them in the future...