Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...menace of an uneasy Israel. From Tripoli south to Sidon, from dusty villages on the edge of the Mount Hermon massif in the east to the fashionable sea front of Beirut in the west, violence continued as Arab fought Arab. In Tripoli alone, at least 18 were dead...
...woman on a train is brought to realize the emptiness of her married life through confrontation with two old spinsters-once childhood friends. Each of the three is bringing home dead or dying relatives. Cornelia is excluded from her accustomed level of Memphis society because her husband is Jewish; she has no children. In parting Cornelia says to one spinster, "I suppose you'll be met by a hearse . . . and Patty will be met by an ambulance-and I'll be met by Jake." This sentence "was one of those sentences Cornelia began without knowing how it would...
Goldman offers no real solutions for saving Broadway (aside from petty reforms of financial odds and ends), and the only conclusion one can reach after reading his book is that within the next few years Broadway will be dead and buried...
...book's flat prose is curiously eloquent. "She was on the side of the executioners," the account says of a young girl, "as children always are." The author knows what the town square of Liège smelted like; she can read the minds of judges three centuries dead. Witchcraft lives, and so does the novel...
...surface, Michael and Margaret Pritchard are a rather ordinary childless couple. He is a shy, fairly dull curator of manuscripts at the Library of Congress, apparently content with an orderly retreat from life among the works of long dead poets. She is a good-looking, sensitive, sometimes witty middle-aged woman with a crippled hand from a childhood bout with polio. She feels his passion has waned, and wants more excitement in her life. He feels caged by the demands of her love. That worm in the bud eats at their inner emotional lives. Their affectionate love slowly evolves from...