Word: streamingly
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...attempt at good literary style. The review of the year, for instance, can catch the mood of the year when written well. 318, however, has abandoned efforts at coherent styling. A series of items--jolly-ups, biddies, football ticket scandals, the Yale weekend--appear in a crude sort of stream of consciousness which is vague enough now and will not mean anything a few years hence. For example, an item, presumably about the Conservative League, starts: "Some plots have a way of thickening--even thick plots. . . a boy and a skunk, and I can't trust my roommate anymore." Doubtless...
Since Guignol's Band is written in the difficult form of "stream of consciousness," it deserves to be considered as an experimental work, rather than a book which can be read, enjoyed, understood, and put back on the shelf. Guignol's Band makes extremely difficult reading...
...bugle. A crowd of 39.000 jamming the Belmont grounds waits expectantly as the nine horses stream around the track to the starting gate. The tote board shows that $376,243 had been wagered on the race, 65% of it on the Dancer to win, place or show...
...Races. On the day of the race, dawn broke with the usual damp wind off Jamaica Bay. But nothing dampened the air of brisk efficiency at the track. The long green barns disgorged a morning-long stream of highbred, high-headed horses. From the barns of the small-time owners and trainers they came in ones and twos. From the wealthier barns they came in "sets," each horse mounted by an exercise boy tricked up in a sweater dyed bright with the owner's colors...
...publishing house for $760,000 between 1945 and 1951, in the correct belief that the World War II baby crop and the G.I. Bill of Rights meant a big boom in textbooks. With another eye on the moppet market, he bought 4% of Lionel Corp. for $630,000. Field & Stream Magazine ($1,300,000) and the James Heddon's fishing-tackle company in Michigan ($2,400,000) were naturals for Murchison, and not merely because of his abiding interest in rod and reel. Among other things, he was figuring on a basic change in the U.S. economy: "Shorter hours...