Word: stinger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eric Carle's bright, elemental The Grouchy Ladybug (Crowell; $6.95) is about a mite spoiling for a fight. But every opponent has a stinger, a scent or a size that is superior. Carle has designed the book to fit the tale: as the heroine meets larger animals, the pages grow in size. None of the confrontations manage to sweeten the insect's disposition. That transformation is accomplished by powers that neither ladybug nor reader can resist: hunger and exhaustion...
...Justice Department has also asked if Park would talk to its agents in the safety of his London sanctuary. It is an offer he will probably refuse, but it reflects how desperate the investigators are for information about the sly and skillful stinger from Seoul...
...demonstrate exemplary camaraderie and a shrewd aw-shucks kind of existential humor. It does not really help much that this funny stuff is juxtaposed with sud denbursts of the most brutal violence, thus demonstrating that whatever grace notes we find in life, a rather grubby mortality always has its stinger...
Because despite all the talk, Harvard is no nest of erotic bedlam. And oddly enough, coed living appears to be partially responsible for the sexual stalemate. It maximizes the opportunities for sex--sex would be as natural as a stinger after dinner. But sex at Harvard doesn't seem to be much past the talking stage. Harvard has failed to naturalize the situation it contrived for itself. And the reasons for this go deeper than coed living...
...example of verse that gets by only by not trying very hard. When a poem looks only like a carefully written sentence chopped up into verses, it's clearly written with a misunderstanding of what makes poetry. "The Unknown Neighbor" is an effectively elegaic recollection with an unnecessary stinger for a last line; it's the most obvious example in the Advocate of a style of would-be poetry that suffers less from a misuse of form--unlimited possibilities of word-clash and harmony--than it does from an unwillingness to consider form...