Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncatalogued in the subterranean passages beneath the Abbey is a curious collection of debris: leather-bound ledgers recording 700 years of the Abbey's life; stuffed birds and animals from its zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...
...Very Earth reads as if it were written by a man under a deep spell, as if Caldwell himself were aware that something was the matter, and simply did not know what to do about it. Its prose has the glassy, elaborately monotonous decor of the language of hypnosis, beneath which the reader can sense the hysteria of someone trying to re-establish communication with the world. In what is obviously a rigorous act of will rather than the product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating idea...
...unforgettable, even when he struck out. His swing whirled him around until his slender legs were twisted beneath him. And the times when his big bat did connect were baseball's biggest moments. The spell lasted until the Babe had trotted around the base paths, taking mincing steps on his small feet, tipping his cap to the mighty, reverent roar from the stands...
...Girl, Mother Wore Tights) that have followed. For one thing, the picture provided ample opportunity for the contemplation of Betty's obvious photogenic attractions, especially in the sequence when she gyrated through a harem scene, clad brilliantly in sequined bra and panties, her legs shining and sinuous beneath transparent pantaloons. For another, it set Betty firmly in the character pattern that her public has insisted on ever since: the hot-looking number who is really just a good kid waiting for Mr. Right...
...successful is Graham Greene's irony? The reader sees (and shares) the author's sympathy for Scobie, and can easily miss the irony beneath that sympathy-or, noting it unawares, can find it ambiguous or confusing. Is it any part of Author Greene's purpose that readers should misconstrue the nature of Scobie's sinfulness-misconstrue it, in some cases, all the way to sainthood? Obviously not. But if an author is widely misunderstood, the reader is not usually to blame...