Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the talking. Churchill serves the King competently and with abiding respect, calls his monarch "Sir." The King, in his chats with Churchill, sometimes displays the British humor which lightens his otherwise grey job. When Winston is especially ebullient, George will remind him that, after all, the most brilliant of Prime Ministers merely moves within the monarchy's ancient orbit...
...widower held an unsteady umbrella against India's brilliant sun. About his shawled figure pressed kinsfolk and friends, chanting Hindu, Moslem, Parsi and Christian prayers. Intently he looked upon the burning ghat...
Favorite picture with adults: an outsize rooster crowing against a farm background (see cut). Children seemed to prefer a brilliant pair of fish, one red, one blue. "Mighty fine fish," said one nine-year-old gallerygoer, "but they don't seem to be in no water...
...Conference. The dead still lay in the houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with still protruding, beseeching arms. ..." On Armistice Night in Paris Bonsal had met a brilliant Italian journalist with a careworn face who told him : "Yes, we have an armistice; the ora formidabile has struck." By spring that formidable hour had grown to a day& -night nightmare of deepening chaos. "All man's work has been destroyed by man's diabolical inventions," Bonsal notes...
Though Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck et al. never use the old-fashioned language of theology, the world they describe is a world where the people are predestined to the damnation of death, defeat, madness or senility. In The Lost Weekend, an unevenly brilliant first novel, the sense of damnation is strong. But even stronger is the sense of suspense−will he escape? why can't he escape? why doesn't the damn fool answer that telephone?0−which is the quality that makes the hopeless tale into a horror story, luring the reader...