Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but in this earnest, dull book, Callaghan proves only that Sam is a sod and the girl is a tedious alky. Chekhov, anyone...
...mountains. Their radioactivity was well confined, and so far there have been no reports of contaminated ground water, but large underground tests could conceivably poison the water supply of an entire state. For relatively small nuclear devices the U.S. is likely to continue underground tests, but the more powerful sod busters of the future will have to be tested in the open because the earth's crust cannot hold them. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby estimates that a ten-megaton test would need to be exploded 18 miles below the surface. At this depth the rock...
...chosen to tell a plain tale that succeeds better as work of the imagination than most fiction. He writes out of that typical Irish condition, self-exile -O'Connor lives in Palo Alto, Calif.-but the pipes of nostalgia are muted. Indeed, his chosen adjective for the old sod is not "green" but "mediocre...
Gamblers & Colonizers. In half a dozen books (Old Jules, Slogum House} about settlers, cowmen and sheepherders of the 1870s, Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green sod...