Word: storeys
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RADCLIFFE by David Storey. 376 pages. Coward-McCann...
...only show a wide disagreement on where greatness lies-or even how to get there. William Rockhill Nelson, founder of the Kansas City Star, took an alimentary approach. "God's great gift to man is appetite," he said. "Put nothing in the paper that will destroy it." Wilbur Storey of the Chicago Times (now the Sun-Times) once classified a newspaper's highest duty as "printing the news and raising hell." Thomas Gibson, who established the Denver Rocky Mountain Herald in 1860, defined a great newspaper as one "untrammeled by sinister influence from any quarter-advocate...
Adapted by David Storey from his novel of the same name, Life describes the tragedy of a man who was made with a huge body and a tiny soul. The man is a mill-town tough (Richard Harris) who becomes a professional rugby player. Big and strong and cunning, he soon becomes a star, and as a star he has everything a body could want: money, women, fame. But his soul is in torment because it cannot have the love of the woman he lives with (Rachel Roberts). He gives her expensive dinners and expensive furs. She doesn...