Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever heard on the stage; but that is probably an advantage for this role. Heaven help her if she ever tries to play another type of woman, though! Her best moments are silent ones, all the same, when she keeps rearranging the plants and flowers with an utterly unaesthetic eye, and when she does a ludicrous dance to Chopin's Prelude...
...influence his papers' political opinions; e.g., in Syracuse his morning Post-Standard (circ. 103,694) is Republican and his afternoon Her aid-Journal (circ. 132,387) is Independent Democratic. Without pretense of being an editorial man, he demands competent reporting and clean writing. He keeps a sharp eye on the budget, but is apt to increase editorial funds in the hope of returns in the form of added circulation...
...provide such a challenge, of course, the men who tutor must be good teachers; many eminent scholars are not. The new program's insistence on a greater number of high Faculty members is good, if these men are chosen with an eye to teaching. To effect this, and to hire a greater number of tutors, instructors and teaching fellows, a good deal of money is necessary. When the program was first announced, Dean Bundy asserted that it presented to the Faculty a "mandate" to find the necessary funds. With the aid of the Program for Har- vard College...
Like a compulsive private eye, the hero avidly watches over the years as father and daughter become almost subhuman in their batterings at each other's dignity and sense of decency. What drives him is a need to break through the outer shells of people and look through to the frightening inner swamps of fear and desperation. What he finds in himself is a weak schizophrenic who sees the world and normal people masked against him. Spying on his own inner self, or on the girl and her father, becomes more important to him than anything that can happen...
Author Guerard (The Hunted, Maquisard), 43, is a Texas-born Francophile who is currently professor of English at Harvard. He writes with a Gallic coolness and clarity, and with the sure French eye for the inhuman qualities of the human condition. This novel, his fifth, has both wit and wisdom, but his major characters are fated to sound like literary echoes: charming as Christiane is, she has been met before more charmingly in the pages of Colette; Anthony, in his bedridden sloth, his antisocial despairs, his wounded intellectual cries, has slouched through a long line of novels ranging from Ivan...