Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ladd case, the exception to tradition resulted from an inner-party feud. In the Sumner and Cummins instances, however, the precedent was circumvented because the Senate considered the proposed senator unfit for the position he was to occupy...
...paradoxical Willy, Dean Gitter shows flawlessly the inner collapse of a man who cannot understand himself, and who nearly imposes his own confusion on the lives of both his sons. In the role of Biff, shocked into a tough honesty which leads to his final knowledge of both his father and himself, Colgate Salisbury shows understanding and mastery of an important and intricate part. Between them, they bring the audience a father and son alike, desperately needing roots and a tangible grasp of life, struggling against the poisonous and destructive vanity of dreams. Inane, pompous, and deeply sympathetic, Gitter plays...
...Nettles and Homecoming, together with a reissue of The Honorable Picnic. A Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day China in the Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never the twain shall meet"; the novelists of the East seem to be ruefully saying "never the twain shall part...
...first three-quarters of her novel, India's Kamala Markandaya, 32, chronicles this head-on culture clash on the purely domestic level, but in the last part Some Inner Fury is rocked by the ferocity of an India passion-bent on independence. In the eye of this hurricane is Author Markandaya's heroine, a grave-eyed, gentle-born girl of 16 named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with...
...contemporary English novel in which the writer's gentlemanly reach never exceeds the grasp of a meticulously tailored talent. However, the personal relationships of her characters have a tenderness and warmth noticeably above Anglo-Saxon room temperature. When East and West finally do spill blood in Some Inner Fury, it is not stanched with muffling allusions to history-on-the-march, but flows with the startling immediacy and open-faced surprise of an accident in the family kitchen where homely, familiar objects sometimes rise up and deal the unkindest cuts...