Word: besottedness
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Time of Decision. But the year off seems to have been a time of decision for Gleason. Late in 1958, he took on a role as a serious actor - in a television produc tion of Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. To nearly everybody's astonishment, he...
"...the stupidities of the Irish church, the puritanism of its priests, the total intellectual poverty of his teachers, the misery of his own poor home, the bitter loneliness of that inexperienced, conquered, timid and emotionally besotted island on the rim of the world."
"The reader may recognize a few mildly tentative efforts in this direction in the last few stories in this book. They started out to be satirical; they mostly failed dismally to be satirical; largely, I presume--I often observe it to my dismay and confess it to my shame--because...
As soon as he is old enough to get into real trouble. Graziano begins to ricochet between a cluttered cold-water flat and a series of reformatories, pens and Army prisons. Out of jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks...
Last week the people of Cuttack, 220 miles southwest of Calcutta, got a chance to test the truth of Nehru's warning. For a long time there had been talk of strange goings-on at the Kaliaboda math near by. A math is a holy place, but the one...