Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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REDEMPTION (249 pp.)-Francis Stuart -Devin-Adair...
Irish Novelist Francis Stuart spent World War II in Germany by choice. Restless and bored with Ireland, at 37, he had accepted a job teaching English literature at the University of Berlin, and stuck it out. Stuart was not the only rebellious Irishman in town. Among his good friends were the Republican army leaders who felt sure they were riding the wave of the future. Gradually the wave ebbed and the certainty faded. Says a leaner, greyer Novelist Stuart, who now lives in Paris by choice: "Who could have suspected in 1939 that things would turn out the way they...
With such reflections in his head, Francis Stuart has been reconsidering the life & times of himself and his I.R.A. friends. Redemption, a feverish search for a new "breadth of understanding," is the product of that reconsideration. Though written in the overwrought, pseudo-prophetic manner of D. H. Lawrence's later novels, it is a fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people...
Against Princeton, Hickman came up with a short punt formation on which Stuart Tisdale, the quarterback, received the ball directly from center and proceeded to pass. Bob Spears, the fullback, and Ed Senay, the left halfback, gave Tisdale excellent protection and since this formation included a third end as right halfback (situated on the wing), Tisdale has three good targets. Against Princeton, he preferred the right halfback, who was Ray Bright...
...National Security Resources Board, under hustling Chairman W. Stuart Symington, last week announced a broad policy to speed up plant expansion, thus make more materials available for both rearmament and civilian goods. Under NSRB's policy, manufacturers will be able to make sizable tax savings by writing off new plants in five years (instead of as long as 50 at present), providing NSRB approves them as necessary for the defense program. Such approval would probably not be hard to get for many companies. Said Symington: a firm does not have to be making arms to take advantage...