Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blows "from [his] mighty mailed fist" the apparition mowed down the Harvard line like a visitation from Yale. Olga scuttled to safety-and far away, "in the Early Gothic Room of the Cloisters in the northern tip of Manhattan," a stone statue of the Madonna broke into "a slow smile that became almost laughter...
...happily: "She has everything-plus castanets." They would marry as soon as he could divorce Samia, who, he predicted, would "flip her lid" at the news. In far off Cairo, Samia got the news but played it cool: "He may want to know that I had a very disdainful smile and no flipping lids...
...categories: 1) "official reporting," i.e., government handouts, 2) "unofficial reporting," i.e., stories from any other source. The second, he was told, was espionage in Communist Czechoslovakia, even though it would be considered routine reporting in any country of the free world. His chief interrogator, a man with a "hideous smile" who said simply, "Just call me 'The Boss,' " confronted Oatis with examples of his "unofficial" reporting from Oatis' own notebook, including notes on the stories from the secret police agent...
...more like fictionalized memoirs than a novel. Self-educated, slum-bred Augie writes with a combination of raw, breezy slang and literary allusion that is often bouncy and effective, although too frequently his overenthusiastic prose is merely bloated. But Augie is a bubbling, vivacious fellow who knows how to smile at the world-and laugh at himself, and despite its faults of narrative, style and taste, the story is good enough to push 38-year-old Saul Bellow to the forefront of the younger, postwar U.S. novelists...
...that have neither pity, love, nor fear," is the way Shakespeare has England's King Richard III describe himself. For almost 500 years, the world has pictured the last of the Plantagenets as one of history's arch villains: a homicidal ("I can smile, and murder while I smile"), deformed ("an envious mountain on my back . . .") schemer who usurped the throne and foully murdered the boy princes in the Tower...