Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the Pill and abortion, pregnancy still automatically tends to follow fornication. Pregnancy itself is an uncharted condition. One valiant mom expected for 18 months. Once they are born, children are as precocious as the zombies in Village of the Damned. Overnight they turn into voting-age monsters...
Three of the starting five were injured in that debacle, frozen to the bench for Radcliffe's last valiant effort against Yale Sunday. Sue Williams aggravated a rib injury in a collision with a Quaker that will put the Cliffe's star shooter out of action for the next three weeks...
...twenty stories are very short--four or five pages in length--and some suffer from a long, descriptive introduction; expectations are created which are left unsatisfied by the brief action at the end. One of the strangest stories in the collection, "Katrina, Katrin'," begins with a valiant struggle to reproduce the everyday speech of office workers on a New York subway platform, then abruptly shifts to a long, narrative story-within-a-story, a form with which Helprin is more comfortable. Yet, Helprin is also experimenting with pure narrative as a form: it presents the opportunity to recount a series...
Harvard suffered it's only loss in the top position. It look midshipman Hoffman five long hard games to down fighting returning letterman Bill Kaplan in the last valiant match...
...mother, whom he calls "Miss Edwina," has been the love-hate pivot of his life. Quite apart from supplying the model for the memorable Amanda Wingfield in Menagerie, this formidable lady, now in her 90th year, stamped certain irreversible traits on Tennessee's attitudes, character and dramatic style. Valiant in coping with her stingy shoe-salesman husband Cornelius' early desertion of the family, self-willed and prone to fits of delusive grandeur as a Southern gentlewoman, Miss Edwina is the greatest single influence on Williams' life and work. When Tennessee uses such locutions as "the study...