Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another rather disturbing trait of Wouk's is his tendency to lump the pastimes of his average people together with their morals. He is not content to show that people are admirable when they adhere to conventional morality, but must also show that everything they do--listening to soap operas, watching abominable movies--is just as admirable. Fortunately such passages are few, but their overall effect is to liquidize and sentimentalize the viewpoint that Wouk takes...
...show of how well the old man learned that old man's art. It is a gay goodbye-as gay as Mann could ever get. And yet his last words will also provoke serious interpretation. Felix Krull is a picaresque novel, and it stands, looking sometimes a little lump ish, in the raffish succession of The Golden Ass to Don Quixote to A Sentimental Journey to Lafcadio's Adventures to (sob!) L'il Abner itself. The book's first fragment (54 pages) was published more than 30 years ago-inspired by the impassioned morbidities of Dostoevsky...
...ship, and 2) a monumentally configured and barely clothed native girl that he happens to own, in one last, grand gamble. The other players spurn the ship at first, but accept when the dame is offered as collateral. Etienne's bet: a trapped fly will light on his lump of sugar, rather than his opponents...
...trouble with a story about the married life of the Hollywood James Masons. Actor Mason slapped on a $1,199,000 suit, and last week won a retraction and a $1,000 settlement out of court. Rave was too broke* to pay the $1,000 damages in one lump. It will pay the Masons in nine monthly installments...
...camera moved in past the masked surgeon and his assistants to a closeup of an incision about 1½ inches long. The surgeon reached into the hole, drew out a lump, cut it off with four snips of a pair of surgical scissors. The two-inch lump was placed in a pneumatic tube, and 45 seconds later it had traveled 2,000 feet to the laboratory. There before another camera, a pathologist examined it under a microscope, ticking off the tumor's characteristics in a matter-of-fact tone. At this point the tension was fever high...