Word: curiousity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launch cut through the water, the frolicking bathers on the beach. Shifting his gaze inland he saw a woman sitting on a camp chair. She was reading a book. Walking slowly up from behind her, a white shirt in his hand, was a tanned, muscular, bare-chested man. Curious, Besley watched as the man walked along the edge of a thicket, suddenly dropped to his hands and knees and crawled into the bushes...
...would it seem to find oneself in an assembly of assorted saints? Short of going to heaven, the best way to answer that question is to dip into the four lively and curious volumes of Butler's Lives of the Saints, just published in a brand-new bicentennial edition (Kenedy; $39.50). The saints are anything but a dull crowd...
...literature courses and anthologies. It is a difficult drama to produce: it is long, the requirements on the actors in interpretation are tremendous, and the title of this musty classic does not draw at the box-office. Moreover, it is a three-ring circus of dramatic forms--a curious medley of tragedy, farce, melodrama, satire and philosophy--which presents an almost insurmountable problem of style and pacing for the director...
...Myths & New Facts. The survivors' testimony dispelled some old myths and produced some curious new facts. A shark is not shy. It does not have to turn on its back to attack. It does not attempt to swallow a man whole, but nips out steak-sized chunks. For some reason, perhaps the sharpness of the teeth, a victim scarcely feels the bite. A naval officer who spent twelve hours in the waters off Guadalcanal remembered feeling "a scratching, tickling sensation" in his left foot. "Slightly startled, I held it up. It was gushing blood. I peered into the water...
...townsfolk as they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa's best suit accidentally encountered in a forgotten closet...