Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LITTLE GIRLS, by Elizabeth Bowen. A cool, controlled, meticulously written parable of no return. Three old ladies attempt, literally and figuratively, to dig up the secret of their childhood and find only their own damaged selves...
...LITTLE GIRLS, by Elizabeth Bowen. A cool, controlled, meticulously written parable of no return. Three old ladies attempt, literally and figuratively, to dig up the secret of their childhood, and find only their own damaged selves...
Ploughshare has yet to dig any canal-like ditches with long lines of nuclear explosions, but it has experimented elaborately with chemical shots and believes it knows the basic laws that govern both kinds of blasts. If nuclear explosives are placed in "strings" with the distance between them equal to half the diameter of the crater that a single shot would dig, and if they are exploded simultaneously, they will excavate a smooth-bottomed ditch, throwing the rock to the sides. One hundred shots, for instance, of 100 kilotons each, will dig a ditch 1,600 ft. wide...
...Dicey is now Dinah Delacroix, a handsome if slightly dotty widow who lives on her Somerset estate in equivocal intimacy with a cross-eyed, 19-year-old Maltese manservant. Remembering the buried treasure chest, she rounds up her long-lost friends and informs them that it is time to dig up the box and rediscover their old happiness...
...burden of The Little Girls is that those who would excavate the tells of childhood had better dig alone. Sheikie, "the famous child toe-dancer" of St. Agatha's, has degenerated into Sheila Artworth, a real estate broker's wife whose hair is now bluer than her blood. Mumbo, the skinny, frizzy-headed intellectual of the trio, has ballooned into Miss Clare Burkin-Jones, the burly, beturbaned boss of a London gift shop. But these distortions are nothing compared with the heightened powers of bitchery the little girls have acquired...