Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corrupt that even such tolerant agencies as CARE and the Catholic Relief Services had given up on it; gifts clearly labeled NOT TO BE SOLD invariably ended up, not in the hands of the hungry, but in the hands of the black-marketeers. Soon the effects of the bloodless military takeover began to be felt. Streets became clean, bus queues orderly, scooter-ricksha boys unexpectedly polite. Instead of dragging themselves to work any hour of the morning, government clerks began showing up at 9. General Ayub jailed about 100 politicos, but he has since so tightened up the processes...
...gentle; he chooses a quiet theme and carefully understates it to the threshold of inaudibility. In his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, he picks the bones of some old people's lives in whispers. Yet Poorhouse is less concerned with old age than with the clash between the bloodless ideal of social perfectibility and the pungent humanity of the old Adam. On this subject Author Updike's whispers are sibilant with meaning...
...their own show. But one day in 1949, peasants in their high boots and yakskin suits surrounded the Maharajah's yellow palace at Gangtok (pop. 7,000), a capital of doll-like houses with blue pagoda roofs, perched precariously 6,000 ft. up a mountain. In a bloodless revolution, they got their demands for an elected national council and an end to tax collection by landlords. But after a 29-day experiment in democracy, the Maharajah dispatched an S O S to India...
...Alfred Eaton's tragedy that he cannot unravel these possessions in time to find himself. It is part of Author O'Hara's semifailure in his most ambitiously conceived novel that the embalmers art which he brings to this saga often gives Alfred Eaton only a bloodless reality, a kind of rouge to live...
...sunny freedom of a girlhood on the Ligurian coast prepared her for anything but the spiny conventionalities of the traditional education (concluding at Oxford) that followed, giving rise to Rose Macaulay's frequent literary treatment of the struggles of the free spirit against rigid mores. The witty, bloodless, polished writer that emerged was-in words she used to describe a character in Staying With Relations-"ironic, amused, passionless, detached, elegantly celibate . . . a traveled European, a bland mocker, a rather mincing young gentlewoman...