Word: essayistic
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ZORBA THE GREEK. The heart and soul of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are brought roaringly to life by Anthony Quinn, as the wicked old brute who teaches a timid essayist (Alan Bates) to put away his books and plunge into real trouble...
...young man answers with a gasp. He is a timid essayist who takes refuge from life in literature...
Married. John Crosby, 52, the New York Herald Tribune's longtime (1946-60), splenetic radio-TV columnist, now its London-based girl-watcher, social essayist and sporadic political pundit; and Katharine Wood, 26, former fashion editor of Edinburgh's staid Scotsman; he for the second time; in London...
...opening scene is a country house where Edward, an essayist, and Flora, his wife, are having breakfast. After desultory chatter about flowers and a duel with a wasp, their attention turns to an old matchseller standing by the back gate. The man disturbs Edward, but Flora finds him faintly attractive. Both are alternately fascinated and repelled by him. Edward interrogates him, insults him, soliloquizes on youthful glories now defunct. Flora too interviews him, trying to find out why she feels drawn to him. Gradually it becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory...
VIVE MOI!, By Sean O'Faolain. The Irish novelist and essayist writes his autobiography with a candor that few writers can quite achieve in cold type. The result is a fever chart of an overworked Catholic conscience, and a collage of the scenes of an Irish childhood...