Word: abyssal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approach. The designs and allegories a la Blake lack the English man's fluidity. They tend to be cramped and a little stiff, although decorative and full of imagination. The best pictures are the self-portraits in the second style. Others of these academic attempts do not escape the abyss of the artist's Germanicism. For example, the painting of the French town of Carcasonne looks like a set for a Wagnerian opera. Another landscape, the artist's impression of New York, is more successful and the interpretation is provocative...
...Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern, a rather dishonorable hussy. With blind folly, Shrewsbury threw away his perfect character in Merryns for the wretched minx. Embittered and ruined, he became porter at a low pub. How he buttled back from this social abyss to become a perfect butler in Manhattan is a story which will bring tears to the eyes of that dwindling body of citizens who have at heart the care and preservation of butlers...
...Lying Days) can no more evade than a tongue can skirt a newly empty tooth socket. Author Gordimer's tactic is to blanket both races in a fog of routinely benevolent relationships and then lift it suddenly, revealing the complacent whites standing on the edge of an emotional abyss. A kindly farming couple find a strange black boy dead of pneumonia. He proves to be an out-of-bounds native, and they suddenly learn that for months their farmhands have been smuggling fellow blacks into Johannesburg. "You would think they would have felt they could tell us," says...
...over inflation and opposition claims that he is little more than a puppet manipulated by War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott (TIME, May 21), Kubitschek assured his countrymen that he had "enough authority, energy and fighting spirit to guarantee a full five-year term which will not fall into the abyss of government marked by precariousness and instability." Raising his voice, he added, "From the people I deserve confidence, and I ask that they wait for the results of my work ... I shall not fail your trust nor disappoint your hopes...
...were, "psychoanalysts would ere this have merged into the academic community . . ." Bailey had a final cut for the process of analysis: "Deep psychotherapy is as dangerous as deep surgery. The technique of deep analysis seems to be to lead the patient along the very brink of the abyss, hoping that he will not fall in-something like Dulles' diplomacy." Finally, affirming his own faith that the problem of schizophrenia will be solved by the biochemist, he quoted Boston's late great neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Gushing: "The task of the psychiatrists is to get back into the asylums...