Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ring of a doorbell last week at thresholds in Florida and Massachusetts signaled the appearance of a short (5 ft. 5 in.), pudgy man with a disarming grin. "My name is Sam Lubell," he said, "and I'm trying to report the political campaign by talking to the voters." For his pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather...
...economic, ethnic, religious. He charts and studies election returns in every U.S. county and most big-city precincts, as far back as the last century, to isolate the important shifting currents in group voting. From these studies, which take far more time than interviewing, Lubell decides what doorbells to ring and what questions...
...FIELD OF VISION, by Wright Morris (251 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), takes a handful of "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners, sits them in the stands of a Mexican bull ring, and has them re-fight the few past moments of truth in their lives. What dies in the ring is flesh; what has already perished in the stands is hope, mind and spirit. Among the fatally gored spectators: an icy arch-mom, the "chaste virginal mother of three"; her husband, a man who has transferred what little emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile...
...kiss that somehow set in motion for the woman and her future husband and children that secret civil war between Puritanism and passion, a war of the blood more openly and obviously dramatized by Author Morris in the spectacle of bloodless Americans watching the bloodfest of the bull ring. Always a novelist to watch, if not to cheer, Author Morris has also captured the poignance of the lonely in the gregarious accents of Midwest speech. At novel's end there is a fracas in the bull ring, and the boy with the Davy Crockett hat touches the still-warm...
Duffy calls Bull-in-the-Ring. Blocking dummies are set up at the corners of a three-yard square. Dead center between the dummies, Captain Matsko crouches in position. A file of burly linemen faces him from scant yards away. "All right," Agase bellows, "let's drive him out of there...