Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stick your neck out. What you need now is an honorable withdrawal. Peace with honor, you know?" The veteran, who hadn't changed his clothes or slept more than 15 hours for a week, turned to leave. "Yeah, I know. Thanks for the advice. Hope it doesn't snow...
...went outside in the cold and dirty snow of the soot-soaked city. And you walked and felt uneasy and looked for a public toilet...
Equipped with bloated rear tires, it rolls as easily over beaches as a dune buggy; wearing snow tires, it can roam freely on backwoods trails as a hunting vehicle. It is comfortable, fast as a rabbit and already immensely popular (one estimate places the number in use at 10,000). But where do they come from? Only when the car starts is its genealogy revealed: beneath the skin beats the shrill, short-stroke engine of the lowly Volkswagen...
...snow continue to descend sparkling in the policemen's whirling lights.") Death for Piet is not a future moment in time: it is time itself, and life is what Updike calls "a series of little losses" leading toward the dry well. Piet fights death by trying to turn time around, to recapture the past, to make manifest the heaven of nostalgia...
...wonderful mania, sparkles with life. Wesley Updike is still mentioned in hushed tones in Shillington for his unpredictable teaching methods. One winter day, he suddenly dashed out of, his classroom in the middle of a lesson on decimals. Moments later, he reappeared with a handful of snow, raced to the blackboard, and triumphantly slammed the snowball against the spot decreed for the decimal point...