Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human spine, slim, soft-spoken Victor Meyers gave little thought to worldly matters during 1921; at that point he was about to graduate from the Riley School of Chiropractic in Washington, D.C., and to go forth seeking his first sacroiliac. Consequently, when a fraternity brother named Bert offered to wise him up, he listened appreciatively. "You ought to move to Virginia," said Bert. "They don't pay any federal taxes over there. You only have to pay 'em if you live in the District or work for the Government...
...Athletic wise the class of '27 fared well until they met Yale, Demoralized by the previous week's defeat from the Tiger yearlings which soiled their otherwise clean slate, the freshman football team lost to Yale, 59 to 0. Stars Captain Leo F. Daley, Isadore Zarakov, and Al Miller were sidelined by injuries, however. Undefeated Yale also tripped the freshman football team, 2 to 1, on a last-minute goal. Captain Walter Ghorardi led the team to four wins, one tie, and two defeats. The Eli cross-country team showed their heels to Captain Sweede's men by a score...
Seasons come, seasons go. but Southern novels just keep rolling along. Here are two new ones, both by women, and as different in subject and style as two books could be. Flannery O'Connor's arty Wise Blood flashes with fitful satire; Caroline Ivey's The Family gleams with kitchen coziness. One is too far from humanity, the other a bit too close...
...hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing...
...Wise Blood commands attention for its oddness, and for its occasional passages of crisp writing and sly humor. But all too often it reads as if Kafka had been set to writing the continuity for L'il Abner...