Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) who deserted his wife, children and career for a hopeless liaison with a circus tightrope walker (Pia Deger-mark). Abandoning their past, ignoring their inevitably tragic future, the two flee to Denmark to spend one delirious summer of happiness. Like stars that burn most brilliantly just before they are extinguished, the couple are renewed by simple pleasures-their bodies, the heady summer air, the wide riverbanks and the small, disciplined forests...
...special talent of 29-year-old Joyce Carol Oates. As she demonstrated in an earlier novel (With Shuddering Fall) and two volumes of short stories (By the North Gate, Upon the Sweeping Flood), she is a literary oddity. An upstate New York Yankee, she creates countrified characters who burn with the kind of short-fused violence and curious pride of privacy that have always been the exclusive hallmark of writers from the South...
...progress," she went on, "when some of our citizens participate in bloody riots and burn down whole sections of cities; when pornography becomes big business and when our children are exposed to it." A mother of three-two girls, 13 and 19, and a boy, 15-she resigned last year as program chairman of the San Francisco Film Festival because the selection committee decided to show a raw Swedish movie called Night Games, portraying, among other things, sodomy and incest...
...this spring, only two voted against caning; only one delegate did so at a national conference of schoolmasters. And a Gallup poll showed that public protesters are still outnumbered by those who favor the cane and strap. When the new school term opens this fall, British buttocks again will burn...
...most obvious effect of excessive radiation exposure is a superficial burn...