Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. In a collection of clever, surreal, and sometimes repellent short stories, the author of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, plays a literary shell game with his readers...
...Washington cops were different. They were well trained and well disciplined. They were edgy too, but they were always able to differentiate between a kid who threw rocks and one who didn't no matter what the two of them looked like. In short, they were human beings...
...Suddenly, as if they had erupted from some invisible door in its base, a huge crowd of black-jacketed demonstrators came charging down, waving NLF flags and chanting. "Revolution!! One More War!!" They surged past us, regrouped, and charged by one more time. They were very frightening. After a short rest, they headed off to the Justice Department, this time in a fast march...
...Joycean epiphany in John G. Short's fantasy-ridden account of the Weatherman incidents in Chicago comes in the final paragraph. Short knows that the instant revolution of Weathermen and other such groups is merely an extension of their oedipal urge to kill the repressive father. As Short wings away from riot-torn central Chicago to the relative security of the Harvard womb, he recalls how he used "to sit every morning when I was 14 years old in a big gothie chapel dreaming of machine-gunning the headmaster and deacons when they walked out the front door." So Chicago...
There was no scoring in the second period. but Peter Kertes converted a penalty shot in the third quarter to give Harvard a short-lived advantage. Brown evaded Crimson goalie Larry Anderson on another fast break minutes later, and the score was tied...