Word: clem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanley's 26th book, is a particularly harrowing example of his craft. Clement Stevens, 50, is a painter with ferocious determination but no special gift. Lena, his wife in everything but name, sums up the fruits of his labor: "Two exhibitions, ten private sales, a deal of barter." Clem no longer leaves their apartment on the top floor of a crumbling London house; he drinks and stares at the reproach of blank canvas. Lena goes shopping once a week, toys dispiritedly with the notion of leaving Clem and the airless gloom that enshrouds him. Clem reads her thoughts...
...symbiosis of Clem and Lena is hardly a compelling matter, and Hanley's narrative does little to pique the reader. He lets his principals do the talking, and, like most victims of accidents. Clem and Lena have a cloudy sense of what hit them. They are well-versed in their own weaknesses, but not on the whys and hows of their lives. A rare visitor to their room registers an outside opinion on what the two have accomplished: "In the wasteland he saw a curious mixture of loyalty and stupidity...
...just walk out on a person just because they turn out to be second rate ... There's more to a man than that." Hanley wrests such epiphanies from meager raw materials, and it is easy to commend his skill and tenacity. But A Dream Journey like Clem and Lena themselves, is more to be puzzled at than loved. Paul Gray
...since his regime unilaterally broke away from Britain. The festivities may mark the last time that whites in Rhodesia can celebrate that particular act of independence. But the mood at the ball was stubbornly defiant. In the spirit of the occasion, Smith's folk-singing son-in-law, Clem Tholet, gave a con brio rendition of Rhodesians Never Die, whose chorus vows...
...purpose of reclassifying university zoning would not aim at stopping the schools from building but to subject Harvard and MIT to the same constraints a private developer faces, such as special permits, city review control and height control, Clem said after the meeting...