Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tools occupy a special place in Dine's gallery of symbols, and several prints of paintbrushes, hammers, scissors and other assorted household implements, lovingly described by the artist, are displayed. The son and grandson of hardware store owners, Dine spent long hours "daydreaming amongst objects of affection." His wrenches and...
Yet the author holds this man in curious affection, as he did Piet Hanema, the star-crossed archadulterer in Couples. The fact seems curious, since most of the sense in the book is given to Ruth. During the marriage she has cared well for Jerry and the children. But she...
Barges by Night. Childers' book is full of suspense, as well as love and art and old-fashioned patriotism. From the tale's opening in Edwardian London to the young adventurers' discovery of a Teutonic scheme for dragging troops in barges to England by night, Riddle'...
Only in The Great Gatsby did Scott reconcile the idealism of American culture with its materialism. In these later stories, the fairytales die hard. "Jacob's Ladder," a Pygmalion story and one of the most tender in the book, tells of a rich, rather bored man who makes the sister...
Next to Richard Nixon, the most popular American in Peking is probably former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, whose frequently voiced misgivings about U.S. detente with the Soviet Union have been applauded by China's leaders. They made their fondness for Schlesinger and his convictions clear by inviting him on...