Word: broodingness
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Her much older husband says little but his manners are impeccable, as are his dealings with the men he employs. When he dies after a hard illness, his wife coarsens and compromises herself. Her house is now the gathering spot for a group of sharp young traders, part of a...
Wurf has achieved his success by a kind of gruff militancy that is a fading memory in many unions. A last-minute college dropout (in his senior year), he looks deceptively like a brooding scholar with his horn-rimmed glasses, roughhewn features and thatched gray hair. He dispels the image...
Fiction is destroyed by précis - Doris Lessing's more than most writers'. Her power lies in the kind of nonpartisan gravity that overrides any specific levity a cynical reader may generate. She encourages the kind of brooding about the questions of life which knows at the...
World War I and its bitter aftermath brought forth a new art in Germany. George Grosz's work, which has its roots in the Berlin Dada movement, attacks postwar German society with a viciousness that spares neither the Prussian military nor the lowest member of the Lumpenproletariat. Otto Dix's...
After brooding over the case for more than a year-while Altmann swaggered around in a green Tyrolean hat, usually accompanied by a tough young bodyguard-the Bolivian Supreme Court finally demanded that the question of Altmann's identity be officially settled. Altmann admits to using the name Barbie...