Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tender Qualities. In his previous novels (The Natural, The Assistant), Author Bernard Malamud, 47, wrote allegories that had the convincing bite of realism. Though there has never been a home run king like The Natural's Outfielder Roy Hobbs, his tragicomic baseball adventures seem as authentic as Mantle and Maris. Though The Assistant's lyrical delicatessen world cannot be found anywhere in Brooklyn, the painful journey toward redemption of ex-Thief Frank Alpine rings universally true. In contrast, A New Life is written primarily in realistic terms, and in those terms it often fails. Cascadia State is obviously...
...they are climbing over the fence. It is a variant of the Orpheus legend, and it is not the fault of the lovers, who are acting in their first film and are touching and believable, that the retelling is not wholly a success. But it is too early for tender legends set in such a background. One does not see Orpheus and Eurydice; all one sees is hell...
...virile saintliness of the great Pope (sometimes identified as Gregory, sometimes as Sylvester) to the sweet composure of the Madonna, the emotions change, though so subtly and silently as to be almost imperceptible. Crivelli's paintings, said Berenson himself, are "full of the deepest contrition, most tender pity, and mystical devotion . . . He takes rank with the most genuine artists of all times and countries, and does not weary even when 'great masters' grow tedious...
When one thinks of Boston, it is hard not to think of death and decay, decline and fall. Before we drop our tokens into the subway turnstyles and begin our survey, let me tender a well-meant suggestion that this matter of cemeteries recalls to mind. If you chance to take ill during the Summer School, ask to be admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, a fine place whose chief interest for us here is that the view of Boston from its roof is about the best in town. If you stay well, you can't possibly get up there...
...three bowling alleys in Baltimore, and is so well fixed in stock holdings that he'll probably come out of this league a millionaire. Or the Colts' Gino Marchetti, owner of a string of hamburger hutches; Alan Ameche, proprietor of six restaurants; and Tommy McDonald, at the tender age of 26, is a director of an Oklahoma bank and also gets a handsome sum from a Southwest bowling alley just for the use of his name...