Word: lurked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date old-fashioned melodrama about three escaped convicts who move in on a respectable Indianapolis family while waiting for getaway money from a confederate. The situation is rich in all kinds of human and ironic and psychological possibilities. But in The Desperate Hours such aspects pretty much lurk in corners. It is excitement that is stationed at the front door, suspense that guards the back, and tension that sneaks looks through the window...
Pusey wrote that it should be no surprise that universities are actively resented now and then since, "the little boy who hates school unfortunately continues to lurk in too many adults and needs very little encouragement to reassert himself...
...tone, moreover, is often as artificial as its plot is absurd. But plainly, Eliot's bantering is only skin-deep; plainly his "Who am I?" is no mere parlor game, but a cry from the heart; and his reshufflings of parentage involve revelations about life. Beneath the surface lurk some very large questions about this world and the next, about people's true identities, true vocations, true way of happiness, about human fathers and God the Father. Few people can be first-rate artists, Eliot seems to be saying, as he said in The Cocktail Party that...
...that increasingly sensitive electronic eyes and ears may destroy personal freedom by annihilating privacy. This whole field of technological surveillance needs legislative attention. The Government cannot be given unlimited power to peep and pry. "The greatest dangers to liberty," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis with reference to wiretapping, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal." But the Government does need some power to balance the criminal's new advantages, especially the advantages to conspiracy against the national security...
...nerves develops, Charles is revealed as a crypto-Communist and Eva as a Soviet spy. Edna finds that she still loves Charles too much to give his scheme away. But matters are not really in her hands, for in the background lurk two rival espionage teams, led by a vulpine Commie and a cagey British agent. Between them, they pull the plot strings of Ambush into a tight, ironic noose...