Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comprehension of his own nature-which is not saintly. Nor is it his nature, as he once thought, to play "Fifth Business"-a special catalyst's role, as the author explains, not hero or heroine, confidant or villain, but "nonetheless essential to bring about the recognition or the denouement, in drama and opera companies organized according to the old style." Ramsay, the eccentric schoolmaster, has played this role in the lives of friends. In the end, completing his solitary voyage, he assumes his proper role as hero...
...Viet Nam's prison camps [Dec. 7] quite disturbing. Faced with Green Berets on the outside and hostile but unarmed prisoners on the inside, it is only logical to assume that the guards will attack their enemy at his weakest point by eliminating the prisoners. Such a horrible denouement would only serve to spotlight once again the combined brutality and stupidity which is the Viet Nam War. Would the epitaphs of the prisoners read, "We had to destroy them to save them...
...martyr, alternatingly childlike and womanly. But the force of her radiance is blunted by the conventionality of her role. Realizing that their love is an affront to man and God, Martha immolates herself. This is intended to be her act of the heart. Instead, it is simply the awkward denouement of Almond's chaotic vision. Mark Goodman
When FBI agents captured Angela Davis in a Manhattan motel last week, it seemed that the denouement of the mystery surrounding the striking, cerebral young radical might be near. Instead, the plot only thickened. Along with Angela, federal agents arrested David Poindexter, a black Chicagoan with known Communist ties. They also introduced another new, if slightly aging, character into the drama-the Communist Party, U.S.A. The result was a baffling mixture of Old Left and New, with Angela the pivotal figure...
When the ghost becomes really threatening, God intervenes and pays a call on Maurice. Yes, God-in the form of a pale, silky-haired young man with a "not very trustworthy face." Thoroughly shaken, Maurice reels on to an equivocal denouement. His dream of a sexual threesome is achieved with disastrous domestic consequences. He eventually exorcises the ghost but is left haunted hy what he sees when he looks in the mirror. "Death was my only means of getting away for good," he reflects, "from the constant awareness of this body, from this person, with his ruthlessness and sentimentality...