Word: gate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garage on fire. All flab and fury, Ford ignites laughter on any occasion, whether he is donning dark glasses outside a layette shop or explaining at length that he likes "serious fun," such as tending to business down at the lumberyard: "Fun is when I go through that gate and the men say 'Morning, sir,' and I say 'Morning...
...sour stench of cordite and unwashed clothes and grumbled about the duty. "Shut up," said a grizzled major. "This is what we're getting paid for." An enlisted man chuckled in the darkness. "Yeah, anybody who don't like the cooking can go right out the gate...
...infested pesthole where honor gives way to hunger, where blatant homosexualism can be shrugged off but snitching a handful of rice is a capital offense. The unfortunates of Changi face their greatest agony after V-J day, when a solitary British paratrooper strides up to the prison gate and liberates them. Is he real? The prisoners stare blankly, then retreat in panic, suddenly jolted into the awareness that the horror of what they have become looms between them and the world for which they have survived. King Rat preaches no moral, but it succeeds at unearthing the big tough questions...
...MANDELBAUAA GATE by Muriel Spark. 369 pages. Knopf...
...Bachelors and The Girls of Slender Means, she meticulously exposed their peculiarities and quivering insecurities. Unhappily, in this, her eighth and longest novel, Novelist Spark finally pays dearly for her indifference. She is obviously much more interested in the sights and sounds on both sides of the Mandelbaum Gate, which separates Israel and Jordan, than she is in her characters, and soon the reader discovers that he is too. Worse still, in order to shift them around, Novelist Spark resorts to a series of involved intrigues and page after page of gentle nattering. For a writer whose prose is generally...