Word: infernale
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The shocker that leaves Humbert a chastened European innocent is that Lolita seduces him. For she is an experienced hoyden who has already been ravished at a fashionable summer camp. In the second volume the sexual farce is more corrosive and the human comedy less exuberant. The couple embark on...
The departure of Baker did not reduce the stature of the HDC, and it continued to add to its laurels. The year after he left the group produced The Moon Is a Gong, by John Dos Passos '16, who had written nothing worthy of production during his years as an...
Through the years Gerald has kept silent, and the secret has paralyzed his career and poisoned his family life. Author Wilson takes his hero on a kind of infernal journey through the circles of deceit in the world-infidelity, envy, avarice, false pride, false piety, malice-before Gerald can face...
Like her elders, Anne sometimes lets the animals get out of hand. Her title story is a well-polished but thin cliche: the blue dog, an outcast, dies happy in the cold because the snow lets him pass for white. But Anne is rarely that gushy, precious or explicit. Indeed...
Thus prattled Paris' Francois Baschet, 36, an enterprising fellow who has been spending his nights inventing instruments to give the listener something new: "A cello with an echo, an instrument that sounds like the human voice, a piano that weeps-an infernal clavier. If I make 21st century instruments...