Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several stories are dark with proletarian mysticism; several sustain their fervor with uncommon grace. Meridel Le Sueur has seen a few things around Kansas and Illinois that nobody else has put down; she puts them down hard...
...turned up at the orderly room with two German prisoners in tow. After forcing the Heinkel down he had landed his own ship, chased the German crew into a wood, captured them at revolver's point. Pilot Clisby's commanding officer remarked it was a bit uncommon for pilots to bring back prisoners...
...island of creepjoints, honky-tonks, jive halls. But for its 245,000 inhabitants, jammed into some 230 narrow city blocks, Harlem is a virtual pesthole. The t.b. mortality rate in Harlem is ten times higher than the rate in more prosperous sections of New York City. It is not uncommon for Harlem doctors to be stricken. Confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium at present is brilliant, contentious Skull Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, former surgical director of Harlem Hospital, considered by many the outstanding Negro physician...
...find something reminiscent of Wildean paradox in the fact that a woman wrote it. To readers of her previous biographies (Farewell the Banner: Coleridge and the Wordsworths; The Romantic Rebels: Byron, Shelley, Keats; Poor Splendid Wings: the Rossettis) it is also a reminder of Biographer Winwar's uncommon skill in portraying the pre-Wilde period. At its best, her book does for the decadent flowering of England's Nineties what Van Wyck Brooks did for the flowering of New England...
Captain Al Labastie is the number one man in the foil. Like Wright, he has a great deal of natural ability, although he never had a sword in his hand before his Freshman year. His style is characterized by uncommon speed and aggressiveness and by a fast, far-reaching lunge. His vigorous parries make him well-nigh invulnerable against the average opposition, and his attacks are always well-planned. It was something of a surprise when Al did not win the individual foil championship in the gruelling two-day Intercollegiate last year. Close behind him in the foil is Crannie...