Word: erraticism
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One month's figures, the Board of Trade warned, does not mean the end of a situation that only a week earlier had sent the British to Basel to arrange another $2 billion in credits from friendly central bankers (TIME, Sept. 20). Indeed, the board last week pointed out...
So it comes as a shock that Coz zens, in his first novel since By Love Possessed (TIME cover, Sept. 2, 1957), has attempted to write a severe anti-novel. Not surprisingly, the result is less than successful. Henry Worthington is like most Cozzens heroes. Society judges him a winner...
But Crane gloated too soon. Although he scribbled furiously all of his short life (twelve volumes of novels, poems, sketches, short stories), none of his later works ever remotely approached the success of The Red Badge, written before he had ever heard a shot fired in anger. When he died...
Enervated Limbo. Armah's anonymous antihero, referred to as "the man," works in a dim, suffocating traffic-control center, where he tracks the erratic routing of decrepit trains he never sees. The scene suits his mental state, for he lives in the cheerless, enervated limbo of post-revolution letdown...
Laundry service was erratic, and the gasoline shortage made it difficult even for diplomats to get around Paris on unofficial business. Otherwise, France's internal crisis has had little effect on the U.S. and North Vietnamese peace negotiators. If the situation had grown worse, the U.S. favored Stockholm or...