Word: summed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Updike is the master of small details and everyday events; he builds his stories like stalagmites, the sum of countless small accretions. In earlier volumes, he clearly demonstrated both his painter's eye and his remarkable facility with words. What is new in Pigeon Feathers is a more intense discipline than he has shown before. Gone are the pages of minuitae which continually threatened to bury and bore readers of his second novel, Rabbit, Run His latest short stories are cleaner, tighter, and more skilfully constructed than anything he has ever done before...
...sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired good, is another thang...
...verdict on the Bay of Pigs prisoners. The men were to be offered to the U.S. at ransom: $25,000 for an ordinary soldier, $500,000 for each of the three invasion leaders, for a total of $62 million. Otherwise, they faced 30 years at hard labor. The ransom sum ("Indemnity," the Cubans called it) was more than three times the amount Castro originally demanded in his infamous Tractors-for-Prisoners offer last year, and it provided eloquent testimony to Cuba's Communist-caused economic chaos...
...price it was supposed to bring at Sotheby's next June was ?1,000,000, or $500,000 more than the record-breaking $2,300,000 that the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid last November for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. The staggering sum only increased the shock of the academy's announcement. Having sneered at the fusty place for nearly 200 years, the public now began to snarl...
...academy responded warmly to the Earl of Crawford's letter ("We've always wanted to keep this great work in Britain"), and reduced its price to a mere ?800,000. If this sum is not raised, however, the drawing will go on the block after all. "A pretty stiff bargain," sniffed the Daily Herald, but then went on to decry the whole by-jingo fuss: "There is something slightly ridiculous about the present outburst of patriotic excitement to retain this Italian drawing, for the national habit is to get art on the cheap." The Herald might have added...