Word: slayer
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...armed robbery, assault, and sex offenses against four women. Although he admitted during his trial to the strangling of 13 women between 1962 and 1964, he was never charged because of a lack of supporting evidence; later he recanted. Stabbed 16 times by an as yet unidentified slayer, DeSalvo is the fifth Walpole inmate to be murdered this year...
Barth's trick is to bend the old Golden Bough into fairy tales about the ordinary daily reality of archetypes. So we find Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, bogged down in middle age and suffering from what might be called hero's block. "You saw how it was," he says to his mistress, a nymph. "The kids were grown and restless; Andromeda and I had become different people; our marriage was on the rocks. The kingdom took care of itself; my fame was sure enough-but I'd lost my shine with golden locks...
...myth slayer has ended by creating his own myth. Still, Revel's act of provocation works pretty well within its own terms, and his corrective exaggerations should also have their good effects. At the very least, the author will become the pundit of the season. Writing grand-design scenarios of the future is a more popular art now than science fiction, even if less reliable. But how truly has the word expert been defined as "a man away from home...
...victory. And they got it against the Crimson fencer they love the least-Larry Cetrulo. Cetrulo lost only two bouts all last year, and-against his last Columbia opponent-got careless again. To the Lions, it was the sweetest victory of the afternoon as they carried off Cetrulo's slayer on their shoulders...
...even dozen, of course, is convenient for reckoning points of the compass or months of the year. Fourteen is a bother. Hence the two additional constellations, Cetus (the whale) and Ophiuchus (the serpent slayer), have been ignored. Not by Schmidt, who assigns each constellation 26 days instead of 30, making room for Cetus between Aries and Taurus, and for Ophiuchus between Sagittarius and Scorpio. Let the horoscopes fall where they may; his way, Schmidt argues, gives "a better guide to analyzing character...