Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Room Nineteen is one of the bleakest stories about a woman ever written. It takes the reader over 38 blunt, brutal pages through the life-and death by gas-of Susan Rawlings. She is a career woman who has married one of her own emancipated kind -a successful journalist. Step by step, she withdraws from her husband, her children, and finally the world itself. There are no hysterics or overt scenes of disorder or despair. She simply rents a shabby hotel room and secretly goes there certain days in every week as if to meet a lover, actually...
...that the voices of the children outside in the Palais-Royal garden are not as loud as they once were. Her constant companion is pain-"pain ever young and active, instigator of astonishment, of anger, imposing its rhythm on me, provoking me to defy it"-but she will not blunt it, for pain, too, can be a boon to one with an "instinct for the game of life...
...SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM (Columbia) is just as good as the first, which is saying plenty. Lapses in pitch and occasionally blunt imitations of Lena Home can be quickly forgiven in eleven unusual interpretations by the most intelligent young singer around...
Shortly after his arrival in Cuba, the Associated Press's Daniel Harker encountered Fidel Castro at a reception in the French embassy. "Why did they ever send you to Havana?" asked Castro. Marker's answer was blunt and honest. "I guess the A.P. thought I was expendable," he said. Four years after Castro's revolution sealed the island from nosy newsmen, only three Western correspondents - all wire service men - remain on duty in Havana...
...dangers of prematurity last week.* Her pallor heightened by fright and emphasized by a blue robe, Mrs. Fischer submitted to a round of predictable nonsense when the hospital held a press conference in its crowded basement cafeteria. "Would you like to have five again?" The answer was blunt and honest: "I told them upstairs I'd rather go into the delivery room again than come down here...