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Katherine felt herself to be struggling somewhere in the middle, between two harbors, unable to decide whether to swim backward or forward, tempted almost to close her eyes and quietly drown where she was Shuttle, shuttle, she murmured to herself, miserably, exasperated at her weakness, her helplessness...
...Life. Nonetheless, Stonehouse could have died a natural death at sea, although local residents say that the tides eventually wash up the bodies of those who drown. Virtually all of his associates rule out the possibility of suicide on the grounds that he was too optimistic and self-assured to take his own life. That leaves a more fanciful possibility: perhaps Stonehouse's business difficulties, or some other unsuspected problem, led him to jog quietly from one life into a more anonymous incarnation. As one investigator points out, such disappearing acts are done every...
...whenever she was around her husband, she seemed to revert to the old "me"-plastic Pat, with the frozen appearance and forced speech. "Maybe she should carry a wind machine around to tousle her hair," says Helene Drown, a longtime California friend who grows impatient with people who do not realize how warm and lively...
...banned expressionism as "degenerate art" in 1933, shared this delusion about its political potency.) Emotional vulnerability became the expressionist weapon on behalf of the masses-"those individual people," as Martin Buber wrote, "naked under their clothes, blood coursing under their skins, all of whose exposed heartbeats together would drown out the united voices of the machines." The pictorial result was a labored and rather masochistic fortissimo, executed in the belief that feeling was all: jagged lines, dissonant and fulgid colors, heavy gloom. The level of sophistication, except in Klee, Feininger, Schiele and occasionally Beckmann, was close to zero. Expressionism...
...dagger man in Africa and Europe. Among Muggeridge's notable colleagues of that tune were Graham Greene and the double agent Kim Philby. Spying depressed Muggeridge so that he even flirted with suicide one night in Mozambique by swimming out to sea. Unlike Evelyn Waugh, whose attempt to drown himself was foiled by a sting from a jellyfish, Muggeridge simply turned back to shore "without thinking or deciding." Through it all, he affects to find his younger self as vain and misguided as the rest of mankind...