Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Tom Doxsee, a good-looking, bull-necked junior, punched him in the belly. Ray doubled up on a daybed and Doxsee hit him again when he sat up. He hauled Cirrotta up by the sweater and gave it to him for the third time. Somewhere along the line, another of the eight whacked Ray. The boys also wrecked the room. The student who lived across the hall found Ray in the bathroom wiping the blood off a cut lip, and put him to bed. Later he had to be taken to the hospital. There, after five hours, Ray Cirrotta...
Wrestling--Men who compete in five or more matches are eligible for a minor H. Major H's are given to undefeated teams, men or teams placing first in the Easterns, or men who place first, second or third in the N.C.A.A. tourney...
Most of the story deals with this lonely hunt, and also with teh tight complex tensions which are released in the Bridges family by the death of the first son. The third and youngest son is left at the ranch to cope with the messy psychological situation created by his brother's death, among his sister, his parents, and his fiancee. By exercising fantastic self-control, he keeps the tensions in hand msot of the time, but just barely...
...third part outlined "channels . . . for securing action on the recommended educational Program...
...writes about Judd gray, the co-murderer, with Ruth Snyder, in a famously atrocious crime of the Twenties, with really extraordinary perception. He has a piece called "The Critical Process" which is the most illuminating discussion of criticism I have ever read. And he writes about Beethoven's Third Symphony with such excitement that if you can read music, you will be impelled to hunt up a score of the "Eroica" and see for yourself what he is taking about. Nobody else for Bernard Shaw, has written of music with such vitality...