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...heighten the impact of these revelations, Cozzens feeds the reader key episodes from Arthur Winner's past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth...
...primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...
...unacquainted with the automotive industry, little reson to institute such a change at this time. Under the existing full-employment situation, a shorter work week with higher pay would seem only to serve to increase inflation. The attribution of an inflationary influence to the four day work week would heighten the natural resentment of the majority of Americans, working a five-day or sometimes longer week...
...Would the Eisenhower resolution heighten the tensions with Russia...
...Back to the Sea. Here Lorenzo, the husband, is the tortured chap whose marriage is one continual snub from his wife. She doesn't love him and never did. She has taken on a whole string of lovers. Lorenzo knows all this but knowing it only helps to heighten his infatuation. On a picnic by the sea, he tries to win her affection, then tries to take her by force, but he realizes that having her that way would really be a defeat. When she drives off in their car, leaving him stranded, he goes wading along the shore...