Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover-up seems to have gone amazingly far. Lord Home, Tory Prime Minister in 1964, insisted he had never been told about Blunt's confession, prompting some Laborites to ask whether the intelligence services had kept the official government in the dark. If so it presumably was not a problem only for Tories; certainly top security officers in the Labor governments of Harold Wilson knew about Blunt. Another question was whether the Queen herself had ever been informed-and why Buckingham Palace had not been warned much earlier than 1964, since Blunt had been under suspicion as early...
...years the autumn landscape in the fertile Red River valley of North Dakota and Minnesota was unchanging: acres of wheat extended to a flat skyline broken only by the lonely silhouettes of grain elevators. Now the amber waves are interrupted by broad patches of dark brown, and the horizon is punctuated by tall processing towers. These are signs of the region's hot new cash crop, which is also becoming an important export: the sunflower...
...enormous Helianthus plant is familiar as the source of those light gray seeds that birds like to peck at and kids love to munch. But what is exciting farmers is a somewhat shorter (5 to 6 ft.) variety that yields a dark brown seed containing a high-protein food oil. This fall growers in North Dakota and adjacent states will harvest more than 5 million acres of what they call "flower," double last year's planting and 100 times as large as that of a decade ago. Some 75% of the crop, which will fatten farm incomes...
...Christian faith in the 19th century, suicide ceased to be a damnable act. The author seems to share Henry Adams' preference for the European 12th century and its security of belief as expressed in the glory of Gothic architecture. He does not assert that descriptions of the dark side of the Yankee mind, the haunted battlefields of the Civil War and the avarice of the Gilded Age as the disturbing context of Henry's and Clover's lives suggest a climate of deepening despair. It is the climate of this richly allusive book, whose central characters...
Auden's shipboard squall may have been uncharacteristic, but it should clearly be given more biographical weight than his social calendar. Yet Auden's reticence about himself may hamper all potential biographers. To his lasting credit, he believed that the dark demons could be hedged in by civility, and he acted on this belief: "A suffering, a weakness, which cannot be expressed as an aphorism should not be mentioned." His love poem "Lullaby" is beautiful and moving precisely because of its reasoned equivocations, its rational tethers on emotion...