Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good bet. Bryan is not a vivid writer, but-the character of Wilkinson aside-he is a sound one. His scenes do not sting, but the reader sees them clearly. Time after time in the novel, there is a feeling that if Wilkinson would only go home and soak his head, the party might still develop into something. Bryan's writing suggests the early work of Louis Auchincloss-competent, intelligent, flawed occasionally by pomposity. This year's Harper Prize was given, clearly, for novels that Bryan has not yet written...
...biggest reason that institutions are so stuffed with money to lend is a dwindling demand for mortgage loans on new housing, which soak up more money every year than any other form of investment. Mortgage costs are falling too. New home mortgages in November carried an average interest of 5.75% v. 5.82% a year earlier. While banks can and will switch part of the new flood of savings into other kinds of loans-some of them riskier than usual-S. & L.s are far more locked into the mortgage field. Says Eugene M. Mortlock. president of Manhattan's First Federal...
...decorative appeal of Louis' and Noland's work, especially for European critics, is not hard to understand. Compared to the beer cans, taxidermic delights, and other hairy intrusions of other new art, their art is clean, almost scrubbed raw. Without resorting to optical ping-pong, they soak pure peacock color into huge, unprimed, raw canvas. With all the flamboyant color that today's plastic paints can provide, their works please some as wall hangings, avant-garde tapestries aglow with unconventional color combinations and quite uncomplicated by symbolism...
...Leaguer, however, must see New York as a college of electives, extending to him the paradoxical gifts of privacy and participation, of loneliness and union with the ultimate queerness of humankind. This is because New York is so constructed as to soak up everything without (necessarily) inflicting a single event on its denizens. Which strikes us as odd, considering it is the worst-run metropolis in the world, or at least the most unmanageable...
...been overwhelmer by liberal ideas, so that even a mind as incisive as Mr. R.'s cannot cope with Miss Peruty's fresh approach to the stale problems with which liberals have so abysmally failed. The whole thing makes me feel sick. Friedman D. Friedman '65 F.T.R. replies: Go soak your head, fella...