Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this green-eyed one," admitted Shaw. She dragged him, coldly protesting, on endless travels to far-off places, where he was invariably miserable. When they had been married a dozen years, G.B.S. had a rip-roaring affair-on paper, at least-with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, making scant attempt to hide his infatuation from Charlotte's "sensitive person." (For once, he spared his wife the embarrassment of handling his love letters...
Every plotter does his part. To hide the sound of a tunnel being chipped through the concrete floor of a bunkhouse washroom, the clink of the pick is synchronized with the banging of the hammer innocently driving a horseshoe-pitching stake outside. Wardrobes of German clothes are run up from blankets and uniforms dyed in coffee or ink; whole wallets full of identity papers are forged; money, emergency rations, maps are scrounged. The tunnel is a marvel of Swiss Family Robinson ingenuity, with electric lights, a little subway running on wooden tracks, a bellows-operated ventilation system...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Courtroom drama of a British M.P. trying to hide a blot on his war record. Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown...
...lost in justifiable (but not entirely relevant) outrage at the conduct of his trial in 1945. (Nothing was proved against him; he was allowed almost no chance to make a defense; the jurors kept shouting things like "Skunk! A rope for his neck! A dozen bullets for his hide!") Cole avoids this by calmly letting the chilling facts of the trial speak for themselves. But in describing Vichy, he falls into another trap: the tendency to feel that Laval is somehow less guilty because Pétain, Darlan and others-who have not borne nearly so much blame-were just...
...further evil is possible, Irish Writer Victor Price argues in this thoughtful first novel. What Price suggests is that anyone, bound up in the tangled complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator. Price's hero is Hugh Barbour, a classicist who escapes from his academic hide-hole into a job interrogating Greek prisoners for the British army in Cyprus. For three years he sets his conscience aside, "breaking his subjects" with the inquisitor's classic alternation of bullying and sympathizing. He is shot at by terrorists, but even this does not upset his routine of work, liquor...