Word: stoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appalled that a magazine of TIME'S caliber would stoop so low as to print "For Crayon Out Loud" [June 8]. It is a product of warped, sadistic minds...
...Reivers* William Faulkner plays a mellowed Prospero and proves an engaging fellow. Like an old man gossiping on the back stoop, he delights in sentimental recollection, revels in his role as a teller of tall tales, at which only Mark Twain is his equal. Above all, Faulkner carries on the flagrant, 30-year love affair he has had with Yoknapatawpha County and its ornery, enduring and, until now, doom-ridden people...
...heroine in an otherwise excellent novel. She does not breathe the way the city breathes. Already a good novelist, Lester Goran will become an important one when he can draw his major figure as well as he sketches the small ones: "Archie came in the door with his habitual stoop although the door opening was well above his head." he writes of one quickly come-and-gone man in this book. "He had that shy manner that always indicated that what he was going to say was not worth hearing, and where he walked there would soon be a broken...
...scholar's stoop and his thick, dark-rimmed glasses planted far down on his nose. His conservative suits are usually rumpled and flecked with tobacco from the pipe that seldom is out of his mouth. Barth is a Calvinist, but not a gloomy one; at home he speaks kindly to large dogs and small children (in guttural Swiss-German), displays a mellow, Dutch-uncle patience with puzzled students. In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks-some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch. Once, asked by a stranger on the trolley car if he knew the great Karl Barth, he replied...
...these the precepts are, my friends, The aging Wilson recommends: Beware of dogmas backed by faith; Steer clear of conflicts to the death; Keep going; never stoop, sit tight; Read something luminous at night. Such are the pearls of wisdom and poetry of the mature Wilson. The man and his voice are obviously cultured. So, alas, are the pearls...