Word: saki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, with the exception of such proven masters of the sharply written, razor-edged tale as John Collier, Roald Dahl, and Saki, few of Hitchcock's authors can both write well and create an intriguing situation or plot. The book's first few selections are rather dull cases in point, and make an unfortunate beginning for an anthology. The editor's idea of arranging authors in reverse alphabetical order is perhaps commendably simple, but hardly functional for anyone who reads more than one story at a time. In this case the arrangement leads to a most uninviting first fifty pages...
...profit organization, the Center pays the salaries of its staff from tuition and individual contributions. Fairs are also used to balance the budget, such as the Bamboo Bizarre on May 25 which will feature saki and attempt to sell objects of art made by members...
...confused with H. H. Munro ("Saki...
...D.F.C.s, Sergeant Kuroki came home-where he could have stayed, had he liked. Instead, he volunteered as a gunner on a B-29 in the Pacific theater, had to pull a few strings to get the job because he was a Nisei. In a bomber christened Honorable Sad Saki, Kuroki flew 28 missions more, including strikes on Tokyo and Yokohama ("my mother's home town"); he was the first Nisei to win a D.F.C. in the Pacific. Back home again, Kuroki assigned himself a "59th mission": a quiet, sense-making fight against race prejudice in the U.S. Ben decided...
...Unlike Saki (H. H. Munro), however, Author Wilson builds the surprise around the corner almost invariably on one or the other of two things-the frustration and humiliation of oldish, plainish women, or the twisted compulsions of sexual perversion. With these dark themes, he sets out to expose a whole gallery of frauds, hypocrites, opportunists and pretentious bores. The result is a fearsome commentary on the viciousness and depravity of humankind...