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Varsity captain Jim Bacon will be number one in the absence of Charlie Ford, who is playing soccer today, and aggsy Mugaseth is number two. Dave names is third, and Altie Flagg fourtn. Dave Watts, regular three-man, will start number five because of an injured thumb, followed by Larry Brownell, Mike Ward, and Charlie Elliott. Dave Sonnabond is the alternate...
...45th Division News, Mauldin's drawings (of which this book reprints 439) retained most of the stock situations of the civilian cartoonist's view of the army. There were the gags about KP, guard duty, and the soldier whose wife turns up in the WAC's. But as you thumb through this handsome book, as Mauldin's outfit moves from training stateside to Sicily, then Italy, the top sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time--the wry drawings of tired, unshaven...
...style in terms of abstract standards of readability without asking what it means to the writer himself. He condemns the critical attitude "intent on getting the audience to understand quickly, rather than on encouraging the writer to have his full say." Kazin argues that to ban, by rule-of-thumb, Faulkner's "overblown" words and rhetorical phrasing would be to purge his writing of those elements most essential to his way of looking on the world. Faulkner could not write differently without thinking differently; therefore his words and ideas must be criticized as a whole. Faulkner's readers are privileged...
...sleeves pinned down over the fingers to prevent thumbsucking. Nowadays: "Sucking is the first way a baby gets pleasure. So when he is tired, or hungry, or doesn't have anything interesting to watch or to do, he may try to get a little pleasure out of his thumb or fingers. Sucking is a poor substitute for being held, or talked to, or fed; but it is better than nothing...
Muzzey's wounds were not serious after the first two assaults, but last Monday morning he awoke with an injured thumb. Half way through the day the thumb swelled up and turned purple, so Muzzey rushed to Stillman, where it was diagnosed as a bad infection...