Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some occasional inadequacies in the narrative veil the good writing that appears sporadically in the descriptive passages. Though these faults keep Senior Spring from being an important novel, some of the book's moderate virtues hint at better things to come...
...rose on a miserable little newcomer to the animal kingdom. Baby Bandoola's trunk was a stunted snout that he could barely move, his forehead and back were matted with long wavy hair, and his skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...
...huddled in Meeting No, 7 with McCarthy, Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused Zwicker, 2) agree that Stevens had been given assurances of McCarthy's future good conduct, and 3) hint that calling Army officers in the Peress case might not be necessary...
...scarred old playing field of English letters. It shows up again in Eric Linklater's entertaining new novel, The House of Gair, but only as a chilly device to drive the characters indoors. Indoors means, of course, the one and only house on the moor, with its hint of doomsday mysteries. But the real specialty of The House of Gair is light comedy, not heavy breathing...
...This fits in very well," he said, "with Russia's year-old policy of seeking greater contacts with students abroad in an effort to change their conception of the USSR. It should not be viewed as a hint at any softening in the Russian regime or foreign policy, but simply a cold-hearted campaign to change outside views without really changing policies...