Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ireland ringing with Parnell's cry: "No man has a right to fix a boundary to the march of a nation." A soft-spoken teacher of math who later joined the Sinn Fein (We Ourselves), "Dev" is still credited by legend with being the last rebel patriot to surrender during the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, and with being one of only 13 scholars who understood Einstein's theory of relativity...
...Orleans Street Singer (Snooks Eaglin; Folkways). A blind Negro singer in selections from his standard repertory -Let Me Go Home Whiskey, St. James Infirmary. The merit of this unusual disk lies less in the polished, pop-flavored numbers (Rock Island Line) than in Eaglin's moving, soft-burred address to the blues, notably Trouble in Mind...
...Soft Sell (Paul Horn, woodwinds; Tommy Loy, French horn; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Shelly Manne, drums; Don Bagley, bass; Dot). A suave and discreet group worries through wistful laments such as Paul's Blues and upbeat numbers such as It's Cooler Inside. Pianist Rowles's feathery acrobatics are a lyric delight, but the real news here is Newcomer Loy, who can cajole his French horn into swinging solos or softly twine it about Paul Horn's alto flute...
...circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping tents booked to capacity at $5 a tent...
Although Jacobson's prose occasionally becomes sonorous with ringingly repeated phrases, at its best it is quietly excellent. The collection has its soft spots-notably a story pointedly titled The Stranger, which tells, in the manner of Camus at his most somber, of a rich man, cut off from society by a standard brand of spiritual malaise, who comes to a strange town to die and melodramatically does. But the high spots outnumber the soft ones. In a class with Nadine Gordimer (Six Feet of the Country, A World of Strangers), Author Jacobson, 30-year-old white South African...