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PETER TAYLOR'S short stories-like the visit to the family house-are revisitations to assess the real dimensions of the countryside where he grew up. We read through the towns of Collierville, La Grange, Grand Junction, Saulsbury, Chatham, Thornton on our way to and from Memphis and Nashville...
...house for a week. Or "A Wife of Nashville's" relations with her cooks. Or the bitter introversion of old Aunt Munsie: a one-time slave, she comes to realize that to Dr. Tolliver's children-whom she raised-she is Aunt Munsie only in the village of Thornton (where people know one another's real place anyway...
...tattered tuxedo (Frank Thornton) proceeds blithely across the blasted landscape. A gray, gluey mud sucks at his feet. The twilight surrounding him is some hallucinatory shade of orange. He pauses at a ruined shack and knocks on the door frame. "Good evening, sir," he says with elaborate politeness to Captain Bules Martin (Michael Hordern), the master of the house and a sometime surgeon. "I am the traveling BBC announcer, and here was the news." He squats in the mire, framed by a gutted television set, and begins to speak: "I am happy to report that after the recent nuclear misunderstanding...
...knew we had the meet won when I passed Stevens." Shaw said. But with a quarter mile left. he started to move up on three Quakers who were bunched in positions six through eight. He passed tow but couldn't catch Karl Thornton. His final kick put a convincing finishing touch on the surprisingly clearcut victory...
...take some of the pressure from senior John Heyburn and junior Tom Spengjer. who must contend with Stevens. Roy Shaw and Dave Pottetti. who've shown steady improvement since the start of the season. could help here. too, but they will have to hold off Penn sophomores Karl Thornton and Eliot Rogers...