Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that culture recognizes no such thing as "lower" classes, it draws sustenance from all It is right and proper for certain ambitious men to fight their way up into the peerage, but the majority are better off sticking to their respective birthrights, each class contributing its special way of life to the culture whole...
Prepared Destruction. From there on, the novel moves with accumulating speed. Ratty little Fingal begins to tremble for his skin. He has "gone too far into evil ... a climax towards which his whole life in its indolence and evil has been foolishly shaping." Pelancey is gnawed by deeper fears: his clumsy conscience eats at his heart. "I'm warning you, Barty," he says, "you can't get rid of it. It's done . . . Only thing to do is to put up with it, and say nothing...
...heal the ulcers in their hearts; for, says Author Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...
...Life persists in the vulnerable, the sensitive," said the aging artist. "They carry it on. The invulnerable, the too heavily armoured perish. Fearful, ill adapted, cumbersome, impersonal. Dinosaurs and men in tanks. But the stream of life flows differently, through the unarmed, the emotional, the highly personal...
Like Jane Austen, one of her models in the art of fiction, Elizabeth Taylor has lived a quiet life in provincial England. As a schoolgirl in Reading, she wrote surreptitious romances when she was supposed to be studying; she worked as a governess, later as a librarian, then she married and had two children. She is now a fair, grey-eyed young woman (36) who lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and, thinking that to be adventure enough, hopes never to have any others. She is a born writer and a good...