Word: abysses
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...role of Temple Drake, expressly written for her by Faulkner, Ruth Ford is altogether memorable. She flicks out her lines with an invisible riding crop, aristocratic in disdain, febrile in sexuality, empty-eyed at the soul's abyss. Scott McKay plays husband Gowan with just the right blend of weak will and good intention. And Bertice Reading's Nancy is a mixture of smoldering dignity and rock-like faith...
...inveterate prophet of perdition, forever firing literate messages of despair at what he deems to be a complacent multitude of 35 million readers. His columns bong with death-knell words and phrases: "hair-raising," "chaos," "crisis," "the slippery brink of disaster," "in these dark times," "the edge of the abyss." Should hope well feebly in his breast, he is inclined to stifle it: "It is still too early to say that the worst result is already inevitable...
...that his body has become one big lump of drugs. The ultimate treatment for a septic part of the body is amputation, and, as many patches on Eisenhower's body will eventually end him up on the city dump, so will the imperialist struggle definitely fall into the abyss...
...suspenseful writing and editing. But just beneath the surface can be glimpsed the glinting corpus of a hero myth-the story of the fight with a dragon, the release of a captive, the awakening of a sleeping beauty. And in its depths the narrative circles down through an abyss of symbols to the first and final circle of reality in which heaven and hell, good and evil, life and death go round together blindly in the mystery of the eternal return...
...alone, and that is because the Soviet Union rejects international inspection against surprise attack. The significance of that is frightening. The result is tragic. It means that at the will and choice of the Soviet Union, we shall have to go on living on the edge of an awful abyss...