Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With each spring day spelling near end to this winter's racing season, the ski team last night re-elected Graham R. Taylor, Jr. '50 captain...
Thus far this winter, the team's record has not been outstanding. Only in the William Carnival and the Harvard Invitation Slalom has the team been in the running, placing fourth in both meets...
...crossed Memorial Drive, he could see the last slimy traces of the winter's snow still melting in the gutter. But the sun was out and the banks of the Charles were once again strewn with people. In his hand Vag carried "The Dynamics of Political Polity," a big brown volume with many Latin quotations and algebraic equations. Vag lay down on the grass, opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years...
...right "That Winter" makes for absorbing reading, jumping from sections of tremendous flavor to impressions and episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office...
High spots in "That Winter" come each time the author draws from his exclusive personal experience. Both The Managing Editor of The Newsmagazine, for whom Miller once ground out crisp copy, and one Jonathan Lee, wealthy sponsor of a "think" journal called Thought, spring from actual life parallels in pretty ruthless prose. On his trip to the hometown of Hadley, Iowa (Miller grow up in a small Iowa town) for his father's funeral Peter's sensations of contrast between Big City excitement and small-town torpor have real force. The resurrections of his high-school love affair...