Word: teter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Knox winners are David E. Faris of Eliot House and Denver, Colo.; David A. Richards of Kirkland House and Orange, N.J.; George H. Teter of Winthrop House and Milwaukee, Wis.; and Martin S. Wishnatsky of Lowell House and Wanamassa...
...best selections in the Advocate are written by its most common class of contributors--students. While the novelties turn out mediocre, pieces by Robert Grenier, Mary Ann Radner and George Teter carry the magazine. Perennially cursed by its inability to ferret out competent student writers, the Advocate has found several of them for the April issue. And to bust the in-group myth, only three are members of the staff...
...Advocate has a short story in must be "Intimacy" by George Teter, but the designation is debatable. The action takes places in the memory and fancy of a drowsy, musing passenger on a ramshackle Greyhound crossing the Rockies. A girl lies "well-wedged" against him in the sweaty bus, and as they travel toward California he slowly loses her, in muddled, morbid imaginings, to "a hardfaced fellow with protuberant eyes" sitting across the aisle. Metaphors incubate by the dozen in Teter's fecund prose, sometimes overgrowing it altogether. But Teter's style is more inventive and exuberant than turgid...
Ironically, George Teter has contributed a brilliant little parody of this genre of undergraduate overwriting (at least I hope it is a parody) in which a couple intellectualizes and aesthetizes sex until it is anesthetized...