Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware, of course, that she agitated me--but I couldn't make out whether she was agitated; and I was determined to avoid a false step. What really happened was that we were both in that state, but neither wanted to take the responsibility of declaring it: the ghost of respectability, perhaps, but also the fear of rebuff and making fools of ourselves. ... The fire began to die and the room to get cold. Should I put a coal on the fire? It would seem to suggest too coarsely that I took it for granted we were going to continue...
...that once most priests are installed in their parishes, they possess them for life as "parson's freeholds," and they cannot be budged except for heresy, grave crime or the promise of richer livings. As a result, about one-fifth of England's clergy gloom about in ghost parishes with a handful of communicants and faintly Trollopean titles. Another fifth can barely keep up with the man-killing spiritual work of fast-growing suburban parishes...
...Drawer Full of Clippings. "The ghost that haunts the policy officer or haunts the man who makes the final decision is the question as to whether, in fact, he has in his mind all of the important elements that ought to bear upon his decision or whether there is a missing piece that he is not aware of that could have a decisive effect if it became known...
...assumption of infallibility is unacceptable because occasional small errors in Rowse's text challenge us to question his larger statements: "Not being a man of action," he writes, "Hamlet's first thought on receiving the fatal injunction [the ghost's command to kill his uncle] is suicide...
...Last Year at Marienbad), Rome's Hamlet looks strikingly like the late James Dean. He wears tight slacks and a turtleneck sweater, while the women wear vague gowns of no particular century in an attempt to universalize the audience's sense of time. King Hamlet's ghost is merely an offstage voice from the collective unconscious, but Freud's ghost has the free run of Elsinore: whenever Hamlet delivers a soliloquy, he takes refuge in a large hole in the center of the stage, getting in up to his knees, waist or neck, depending...