Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miserable winter campaign. Trying harder in each race at the unfamiliar 600-yard distance, Gordon actually got worse as the season wore on. But he is a great competitor and a fine runner; he should come back. Art Cahn in the 880 and Jed Fitzgerald in the mile seem ready for some fine efforts...
...quaint incidents which divert him. While his characters are not burdened with realism, they do have considerable vitality to them. If their language is complex and perhaps even elusive at times, it has a consistency and logic that emerge in a second reading. The logic and consistency seem a sign that the author has planned precisely where he is taking his characters; if their destination is not clear in the excerpt, readers doubtless will find clarification when they see the whole...
...thing about Salemme's art is that it appears to be abstract and is not. He was a figurative painter, working with multihued geometric figures of his own invention and picturing them, precisely arranged, on vacuum-cleaned stage sets. His figures seem about to spring into action, like the Tin Woodman of Oz. They could not look more mute; yet they speak of the human condition. Vintage of Uncertainties cruelly evokes the uncertain aspects of motherhood. The Oracle delicately poses a horrendous question: Which is the Oracle? Who is to be believed...
Amorality. Who could seem sweeter than Joan? When she steps off the plane from Denver to meet her fiance, she looks like the all-American girl, and any bystander would guess that her soul is as spotless as her nylon underwear is sure to be. Carl Dickson, a young ad man with thoughts that seem old for his age, has decided to marry Joan because, at 26, he is already suffering from the roué's punishment: boredom with compulsive conquest, disgust with predictable passion...
...accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust to dust." Sex itself ends in the kind of disgust that makes both the scene and the act seem like an aspect of earned punishment...