Word: welling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived in France since World War II. There she produces her lapidary long stories and an occasional dazzling short novel, usually set in Europe. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker. Canada seems about to give her the Governor General's Literary Award. But she is not well known in the U.S., or as celebrated as one of the prose masters of the age ought...
...vigorous John Quincy, viewers could follow the thinning of bloodlines and the refining of sensibilities. In Part 12, young Henry Adams (1838-1918) meets his future wife Clover Hooper at the Harvard Library. "Plato! In the original!" exclaims Henry as he glimpses the spine of Clover's book. "Well," she replies, "I don't like translations...
Until now, no one has attempted to explain why Clover killed herself. Adams never writes about his wife in his autobiography. From outward appearances, theirs was a childless union of matched temperaments enjoying similar tastes, opinions and well-bred friends in Boston, Washington and London. Friedrich fills that gap with a fresh supply of letters, observations and a perceptive linkage of occurrences that could have turned Clover's basic melancholia into self-destruction...
...over a larger school, Mount Healthy. That left Moeller firmly entrenched atop the informal lists as the U.S.'s champion secondary school for the third time in four years and further extended the school's collection of trophies: eleven Greater Cincinnati League titles as well as three state, seven regional and nine city crowns. Says one of the pack of university scouts who follow Moeller's fortunes: "This is one of the finest sports dynasties ever. For longevity and total dominance, it's better than U.C.L.A. basketball...
Moeller also plays a little better than anybody else. The Moeller monolith not only bowls over all local opponents but dispatches out-of-state challengers as well. This season, Moeller crushed a perennial Detroit schoolboy power, Brother Rice High School, 33-14, then took on the flagship school of the tough western Pennsylvania mine country, Penn Hills High; score: Moeller 30, Penn Hills 13. The Crusaders' final regular season game against Mount Healthy was typical. Despite a driving rain that turned the field into a swamp, the flashy Moeller offense still operated in high gear, rolling up five touchdowns...