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...raised in Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins a character to the reader's consciousness. Jimmy Tal-lant's lonely face "made you think of telephone poles leaning infinitely on along a highway that went forever toward the mountains." A sub-moronic deputy is "the third best shot at the pool hall"; ig-year-old Cissy was "poised that summer at a moment of femininity...
...mental defectives in the U.S. suffer from phenylketo-nuria-a mental disease accompanied by the body's failure to oxidize an amino acid, phenylalanine, to tyrosine. Probable cause of the failure is a defective enzyme. The Pauling project: to find out the connection between the molecular and men tal defects, and also whether the other 99% or more of mental defectives owe their handicap to a similar molecular abnormality caused by a combination of defective genes in their parents...
...inclined recklessly to risk what they have already won. "After all," he says, "the law is a precarious profession and it's not easy to come by this much money all at once." And he adds, with typical self-deprecation: "Especially for someone like me, whose one great tal ent is an infinite capacity for the trivial...
...words you quote from Herman Tal-madge's book [Nov. 14] sound vaguely familiar; Adolf Hitler had much the same feelings in regard to racial mixture. I never thought that the people of the U.S., or even of Georgia, would read even one word of such stupid filth. The best place for trash like Talmadge is the trash...
...early crowd gave way to the late one, the little band began to perk up. Vibraphonist Joe Roland bent over his instrument like a chef over a hot stove. Guitarist Tal Farlow, who had gazed vaguely into space as he played, began to take an interest in the way his fingers rambled up & down the fingerboard. Clarinetist Shaw began to interpolate light-hearted musical comments on his own flights-the raised eyebrow of a grace note, the shrugging arpeggio, the delayed take, the impudent echo. His glum face relaxed into smiles, and the crowd began to hear the new Artie...