Word: affectionate
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Solita Marichal said Aleixandre is a "man of tremendous affection" who absorbs love around him and tries "to find some kind of communion with the world."
The aging adventurer is pointed to Hong Kong, then to Southeast Asia and programmed intrigues?and unexpected sellouts. The Schoolboy's odyssey is both official and personal. As colleagues perish, as the enigmatic Ko brothers become more comprehensible, as loyalties dissolve, Jerry finds himself questioning his own motives and, finally...
The stately minuets of Smiley, the waltzes of his subordinates, the frugs and polkas of his rivals and enemies are all perfectly timed and performed in Le Carré's works; the choreographer does indeed know his nation and its people. Nevertheless, the thoroughly English writer relies a bit too heavily...
In many ways, the anecdote is typical of Mitford's attitude toward her life of leftwing activities, and it is no accident that she chose the phrase for the title of her new book. In A Fine Old Conflict, Mitford treats her long alliance with the Communist Party U S...
Just about then a fictional replay of the Nixon tragedy-Washington: Behind Closed Doors- was holding 50 million Americans in front of their TV screens. The best line of the day came out of this electronic novel. Andy Griffith, playing a retiring President patterned on Lyndon Johnson, cast a wise...