Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve days and nights of the Death March, 17,000 American and Filipino soldiers died. In the next 20 days, at Camp O'Donnell, 23,000 more died. Stewart's chronicle becomes a saga of almost miraculous survival in the face of starvation, brutality and the terrors of the mind. The high point of horror: the fetid hold of a Japanese transport where thirst-crazed prisoners, so tightly packed that they had to stand on their own dead, claw each other to death for a drink of blood...
...picture the time and to convey the responses of a driven people who found God in a harsh desert. Deliberate, also, are the Old Testament characters, made to look like medieval ghetto figures, and the animals that might have been drawn by cave dwellers to illustrate a great saga. These powerful, often dreamily tortuous drawings are full of the awe, the stern morality in which their origins were themselves steeped...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...
...GREAT WORLD AND TIMOTHY COLT, by Louis Auchincloss (285 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), is another saga of the pervasive man in a grey flannel suit (legal division), specifically a young attorney in one of Manhattan's sprawling and powerful law factories. As outlined by Novelist-Lawyer Louis Auchincloss, Timothy Colt's problem is how to conform to a pattern whose place in the moral spectrum lies comfortably between the shining white of pure integrity and the smudgy black of downright dishonesty. At the start, as an eager apprentice in the prosperous firm of Sheffield, Knox, Stevens & Dale, young...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...