Word: teuckerman
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...devices--and there are many--seem merely pasted on to an essentially light story; I have the feeling that they do not belong here, that they are an awkward bow to something that Tuckerman cannot handle within the scope of his novel. Well worn phrases constantly appear, as when Teuckerman talks of an English boy, "He never did understand them (the French), although with thousands of his own kind he gave up his life on French soil a few years later." Of course the thought is sympathetic and rightly reverent, but it has been said so many times before...
...direct contrast to the strained, heavy quality of Teuckerman's moralizing is the easiness of, "Again that ominous silence in the classroom while all the minions waited breathlessly to find our which way the wind would blow. Little Dog (a teacher) asked courteously whether he might inspect my galoshes. I peeled them off, and with that slight curl to his lips he examined them. 'Very curious. Do all Americans wear these objects?' I said I believed most of them...
...believe that Parysko ran by three emergency telephones because he knew that they connected only with the Appalachian Mountain Club camp at the base of the mountain, staffed during normal ski hours. He passed the telephones at night. We cannot say if he knew, or discovered, that the Teuckerman Ravine Shelter was unoccupied. Certainly he passed the two first aid caches simply because it was not aid for himself he sought, but help for his snow-buried companion...
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