Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five largest residential builders. Since taking over the place a year ago, Watt has renamed it New Bellehurst, refurbished many of its wrecked houses, redesigned others, sold 116 homes for $4,500,000. Having risked $21 million to buy the property out of receivership, Watt expects to wind up in a few years with a tidy profit and a stylish $48 million community of 2,000 homes, 400 apartments, a shopping center and industrial park...
...days, and sentimentalizes the nature of childhood as well. Schickel argues that Disney could not have been an artist because his simplified view of reality narrowed rather than expanded consciousness. Yet time and again he somehow feels the need to hold Disney up as an artist-only to wind up proving that he wasn't. It is usually done in a tone of deep disappointment...
...cheerless affirmation willed out of an all too obvious despair. The despair seems to rise from the conclusion that ultimate answers are beyond reach; Gass puts his faith in the structure of his prose and the intense physicality of his words. Death imagery crackles through these pages like winter wind through a cornfield, yet the characters have exceptional vitality. A youth watches with unblinking fascination as a farmhand tries to knead life back into a child who is "froze like a pump." A housewife sees beauty in the configurations of dead roaches. In the title story, an intricate prose poem...
Harvard's time of 6:13.3 did not set a course record. There was a stiff head wind quartering off the port...
Half an hour later Cornell covered the same course in 6:46.1, but had to contend with a stronger head wind. Coach Bo Andersen said that he was impressed by the way the Big Red had come on strong, particularly in the last half mile...