Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After a short courtship, the bereaved merge forces, causing the predictable problems: lineups for the bathroom, family jealousies, identity crises when her kids have to change their last names to match their new stepfather's. Just as predictably, in the final footage the frowns turn into smiles that collectively display something like 500 teeth...
...first monologue appeared in the April 1967 issue of Esquire under the title A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis. It is a short, tame outline of Portnoy's problems. Things loosened up in a hurry with the 6,000-word installment published last August in Partisan Review; called Whacking Off, it is a frantic confession of boyhood sin. Portnoy recalls how, as an adolescent, he always had to please his parents publicly, while he privately and obsessively masturbated to please himself; this experience sentenced him to a chronic condition of shame, which he begs his analyst to cure...
Heretofore, Pritchett's eminence has derived from his travel articles and books, his suavely ironic short stories and his book reviews (mostly for Britain's New Statesman), which make him a rival of Edmund Wilson as the best literary critic in the English language. Now an angry old man of 67, Pritchett vents some of the redbrick ferocity of early Osborne or Amis-though with more elegance-as he writes of the genteel poverty and violent lower-middle-class life that he survived...
...until Harvard etablishes a program of its own in African Studies. "We started out planning to make more major recommendations," Michael D. Robinson '71, one of the authors of the report, said yesterday, "but we were preempted in that by the Rosovsky committee so we decided to concentrate on short term measures...
...virtually unchallenged in the early running. The Preakness is the shortest of the Triple Crown events, and Dancer's Image will have a half-furlong less in which to make his move. His trainer knows that, of course, and perhaps for that reason sent the horse on an unusually short and speedy workout Tuesday. But strongly in Forward Pass favor is the surprisingly mediocre quality of the rest of the Preakness field, which includes several outrageous longshots and little apparent speed to take the place of Kentucky Sherry...