Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson, goalie Forbush turned in a steady effort, and fullback Sandy Cortesi, recovered from an attack of blood poisoning, returned to spark the defense. Now sporting a 3-1 record, the Crimson will face Columbia Saturday with confidence...
...spark that has been missing will return and then our cycle could read: recession, recovery, level, up." It was pretty audacious of him, though, to give away his source like that...
...Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark. Peckham Rye is a London suburb where the people are too average to sin grandly but not too average to sin. The result is often hilarious...
...Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark. A brief encounter between a London Mephistopheles and the local mediocrities produces a hilarious novel, and some reflections about how even the common place can be touched with mystery...
Neither Dougal's victims nor the reader ever discovers precisely what is deviling them. It is Novelist Spark's triumph that it never seems to matter. When Dougal is accused of being "unnatural," he replies: "All human beings who breathe are a bit unnatural." On every page of Peckham Rye, the author demonstrates that notion with high comic brilliance and a strabismic...