Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerry is a sort of suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children, she is a sharp-nailed bitch with expensive and self-indulgent tastes, subtly pushing Jerry towards estrangement from his wife...
Richard seems on the verge of becoming a whole character, but Updike never brings us beneath the surface. We see Richard acting out his resentments and passions, which he does with great theatrical flair, but his motivations remain cloudy, unpenetrated, and we're left feeling sorry for him without understanding why we should...
...their own making, the Fitzgeralds' protagonists want to direct their own fate. Val Rostoff, the dispossessed Russian count in Scott's "Love in the Night," returns to the harbor at Cannes each spring hoping to find the mysterious American woman on her yacht where they made love beneath the moon, one night many Aprils before...
...next year," the fan said. "OK, have a good winter," the vendor called back, smiling from beneath his grey stubble. Behind them, Fenway Park loomed majestically, smiling quietly from beneath the late afternoon shadows...
...possible-even likely-from such material, not much in fact resulted, at least until the 1920s when William Faulkner began cultivating Yoknapatawpha County, the patch of "rich deep black alluvial soil" that was alike his invention and his home. Suddenly, a whole generation of Southerners saw the ground beneath their feet for what it could be: a foothold on the universe. Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, early Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor-for close to 40 years, the line of inspired Southern writers seemed inexhaustible. Critics sometimes refer...