Word: flashbacks
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...retrace his P.W. characters' lives, Novelist Klaas uses the familiar time-machine or flashback technique. Wyoming Schoolteacher Fritz Heine is a home-loving navigator who has never really navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering...
...parents' maid is a mystery that challenges Alan Duncan, just returned from Europe to manage the family's huge sheep ranch near Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to the dead girl's diary, Duncan's sleuthing takes him less than 24 hours, but an almost continuous flashback takes him over years of personal history, etched in the common memories of a whole generation of Britons who fought in World War II. Alan discovers that Jessie Proctor was an alias assumed by Janet Prentice, a World War II WREN in Navy Ordnance whom he had once...
...What has gone wrong with him? The broker asks, but before he can get an answer, Ginger takes French leave.* As the broker goes from one to another of his old soldiers, looking for the fugitive, the decline and fall of Ginger is described in five long flashbacks. For a wonder, the interruptions, usually fatal to the flow of interest, do not really interrupt; the flashback has seldom been used with such propriety and naturalness. The battle scenes are excellent, too, particularly a couple of comic ones...
...cheering audiences. Perched on the back seats of shiny convertibles, he rode through streets swirling with confetti and draped in bunting, waving to the crowds. He patted the backs of deserving candidates. In flight, he worked on speeches, changed his clothes, catnapped. For Ike, it was more than a flashback to 1952: it was the harbinger of things to come. In the next seven months, until the elections of 1954 are history, his weeks will be filled with more of the same...
...giving him a psychosis which prevents him from marrying the women he falls in love with this boresome idea is not abandoned as soon as the action is underway, but instead is followed through down to the last guilt complex. The audience is shown a sodium amytal treatment, a flashback to the patient's youth ("You see, his father and mother quarrelled..."), the patient falling in love with his beautiful young psycho-analyst, and, as a grand climax, the paient curing the psycho-analyst, of her psychosis...