Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maitland, a London solicitor hung up on booze, barbiturates and the bleak self-knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." He is pushing 40, a tooth-shy, flea-bitten leopard, all spots and no strength, restlessly, frantically, pacing the cage of his life-in-death. "In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost," wrote Dante; Inadmissible Evidence is, among other things, a threnody on the middle years, laced with caustic humor...
...scriptures, Jesus believed that the "messianic drama must be acted out" in Jerusalem, the spiritual and political capital of the Jewish people. Several months before Passover, says the Gospel According to John, Jesus went to Jerusalem "not openly, but as it were in secret."÷ The purpose of this journey was, Schonfield guesses, to set the stage "for the drama to be enacted at the Passover" by enlisting the secret support of Lazarus, Joseph of Arimathea ("one of the great mysteries of the Gospels, a wealthy man and a member of the Sanhedrin") and others...
...last piece of fiction, "The Sentimental Journey of Arthur Friedberg," is simply clumsy and banal. David Ansen blows a paragraph of dull theme into several pages of dull plot...
BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. An eerie journey into the depths of an insane mind, told with a skill that transforms psychiatry into living literature...
...every traveler would or could face this journey in this way. But it represents a compassionate frankness that has perhaps become too rare...