Word: sansom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TOUCH OF THE SUN (250 pp.)-William Sansom-Reynol...
...English are an incurably romantic race, one of whose romantic illusions is that they are a commonsensical people. English Author William Sansom-one of the best short-story writers now at work-is commonsensical enough to know this. His characters may be environed by a wilderness of asphalt, or by a sea of powder-blue wall-to-wall carpet, or by the price-tagged jungle of a department store; yet each embarks on a voyage of the spirit, with misery as the home port...
...LOVING EYE, by. William Sansom (253 pp.; Reynal; $3.50) has a hero who, like Emmet Booth, is obsessed by a woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing...
...Twin Football Stars Harry and Robert Beaube of Gadsden, Ala.'s Emma Sansom High School looked so good to an Auburn (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) coach that he offered the boys $500 each to make a run-of-the-mill athletic scholarship look a little more attractive. Southeastern Conference Commissioner Bernie Moore promptly fined Auburn $2,000 for violating recruiting rules. (So far as the conference is concerned, the twins may sign with any school but Auburn.) Said Auburn President Ralph B. Draughon: "In our opinion, the rivalries in the recruiting of athletes in Alabama are reminiscent of the Guelphs...
...fourth of the book is taken up with unsparing accounts of World War II. Expertly written-if by now rather familiar-are the deadpan horrors of Alan Moorehead's graphic Belsen and the explosive shock of a Sunday-morning air raid in London as described by William Sansom in Building Alive. Often, Horizon's writers add a reflective dimension to war reporting possible only to men who have known a country before it became the enemy. In Rhineland Journal, Poet Stephen Spender sensitively compares pre-Nazi to postwar Germany and also tells of the human ruins in terms...