Word: bisected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as Wodehouse's fellow countrymen, bought some 30 million volumes of these comic fantasies, set in a neverland of unambiguous upper-class twits, where it is always a bright spring morning with nary a cloud of poverty, malice or lust? Analyzing Wodehouse is like trying to bisect a meringue. The whimsy of Blandings Castle and the Drones Club crumbles to the touch. Names like Freddie Threepwood, Oofy Prosser and Marmaduke Chuffnell lose by the listing...
Though he set his 20 previous novels in widely different locales, Author Graham Greene has always concentrated on a single terrain: the shadow zone where betrayal meets despair. This moral penumbra may fall across an entire country or bisect a drawing room or a double bed. Ordinary people can pass through it ignorantly and unharmed, save for the occasional grotesque accident. The only ones constantly in jeopardy are the marginal men in a skeptical century, those knowingly burdened with a soul that is eligible for damnation...