Word: compton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about a foot, on the average) keeps noises out and it is a great weather insulator as well. But there are some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their way in and drive aviphobes crazy with their chirping. Some roofs have mice, too. Says Lord Compton: "Unfortunately, I'm allergic to cats, so all I can do is put out traps." A more spectacular peril is the danger from fire: a thatched roof, once touched off, explodes in flames...
...early ankle injury to star Tom Platz has hampered the jumping team. His recovery, and practice for first year jumper Dick Compton, will hopefully put the jumping squad back on its feet...
...police found the bodies of an elderly couple, Joseph and Isabelle Diosdado, in the back room of their feed store in Compton, Calif. Each had been shot twice, and the cash register was empty. Eight weeks later, following up an informant's tip, police officers arrested Bozzie Bryant Burton III, then 16. Young Burton asked to talk to his father, an auto-plant inspector who was already at the station in search of his son, but the police refused. They did advise him, however, of his right to remain silent and to consult an attorney. In the course...
...Last and the First is even sparer than most Compton-Burnett. At times the dialogue sounds eerily like Gertrude Stein's: "It is what it is and would be." All signs of movement are auditory. One knows a character has entered a room when he joins the conversation -an easy transition, since he has usually been eavesdropping outside. There is absolutely no small talk or incidental detail in Dame Ivy's novels. There are, however, plenty of conversational bromides: the author delighted in characterizing her villains by making them overly fond of banal phrases. "The yoke...
Because she concentrated so fiercely on the brutalizing effects of power and money, Ivy Compton-Burnett has often been accused of being pitiless and even amoral. She was as unsparing as Ibsen in visiting the sins of parents on their children, and there are few more starkly evil women in literature than the murderous Anna Donne in Elders and Betters...