Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong uniform. Confident that he can easily pack another 25 or 30 Ibs. onto his lean frame, scouts predict the "Stork" will continue to "worry hell out of a backfield" with his long-arm way of deflecting passes, and snagging ballcarriers from behind. Stanfill is a relentless de fender who specializes in flattening quarterbacks. Nothing fancy about him, say the scouts, "just a big strong boy who gets to the ballcarrier...
...drinking and respair that "inspired" Under the Volcano. After languishing in Southern Mexico for two years Lowry left for the United States where he met Margerie Bonner, his second wife. In their squatter's shack on Vancouver Island, she nursed him through another seventeen years of alcoholism, depression and relentless bad luck, until his death from drinking...
...CANCER WARD, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Communist society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...
...CANCER WARD, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Communist society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...
...CANCER WARD, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Russian society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not quite so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...