Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rivets") in Ecclesiastes. So you say "they got no depth," right? You say there's no plot, right? You didn't get the Civil War bits mixed into the book. You liked the metaphors, but they were "out of place." Like the one--"My coffee was an albino polar bear--black and cold." Right...
...scenes in Dark As the Grave that recall the control of Under the Volcano and Lunar Caustic, the humor and self-mockery that save Lowry's protagonists in spite of themselves. When the imagery gets a little too mucky even for Lowry's strong-backed readers to bear, he pushes his always tenuous symbolism gently over the edge, and it tumbles to the bottom with the almost comic relief of self-parody...
Save where a pine at the sky's rim Took something from the bear...
...hunt seems early to have been less of a search for food than a heroic confrontation between man and beast, and a sport worthy of kings. Charlemagne, for instance, reportedly acquired the superlative in his name only after engaging in hand-to-hand combat with an enormous bear and, of course, winning...
Gaston, for his part, displayed the gallantry expected of a noble knight to the very end, giving his life in 1391 to rescue one of his favorite hounds from a mauling bear...