Word: vanishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of his career, John Wayne has walked through westerns as a stalwart named McCord or Chance-men who are merely synonyms for John Wayne. It comes as a pleasant surprise to see him vanish into the part of Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. In the Charles Portis novel, a 14-year-old girl, Mattie Ross, narrated her adventures in the 1880s while tracking down her father's murderer with the aid of Cogburn, an aging federal marshal. The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue...
...readers, smile and purr that way." When as a young man in Berlin, Nabokov decided to translate an English masterpiece into Russian, the book he chose was Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps he knew, even then, that the best way for an artist to triumph over time was to vanish like the Cheshire cat, leaving only a smile behind...
When the Dovells created the Bristol Stomp in the late fifties, they probably never anticipated the rapidity with which it was to vanish from the popular scene. Likewise, those who started the freshman intramural program at Harvard were probably of the opinion that it would last forever and ever. But if the participation continues to grow at its present negative rate, soon there will be no organized program of intramurals for first-year students...
...factor in improving the performance of the defensive unit. Nicosia will team with Bob Johnson and Rick Frisbie on a strong second midfield line. Munro is praying that the injuries won't act up again today in contact, and that the team's fine showing in practices won't vanish under game conditions...
...citing Maoist intransigence as a reason for wavering East European allies to rally to the Kremlin's side at the next world conference of Communist parties. Neither nation, however, has proved wholly predictable in the past, and the comparative restraint that both have displayed thus far could vanish quickly...