Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though it were threaded rather than written. And while there is a firmer effort to be objective, the method of quoting both for and against a man or an issue frequently results in a Mexican standoff. And so many people are quoted in an effort to get "behind the mask" of Roosevelt that the reader begins to long for a page of forthright analysis from the historian rather than a mess of scraps from people with masks of their own to keep in place...
...thought that the seven girl agents, and a hundred others, might simply have been decoys handed over to certain death in order to mask other intelligence activities was an unpalatable one for many Britons. Gilbert had advised Author Fuller not to "put your nose into this stinking business" because "spying is not a business for angels." Most Britons preferred to remember the words spoken in St. Paul's Church in Knightsbridge in 1948 when a memorial to the memory of war heroines was unveiled: ". . . For God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the furnace...
...told of his appearance is that he is tall and has "a snub nose and an unremarkable face." As for the novel's structure, it is like an endless railway journey in which the reader sometimes waits yawningly for the next station of the plot. Yet these defects mask virtues. Coincidence is the logic of destiny, and Dr. Zhivago has a strong sense of his destiny. The massed characters and episodes help to give the book panoramic scope. And the torrents of talk on art, religion, and life usually flow with incisive force, in what one critic calls Western...
...pervasive is evil that it lurks in goodness itself--in the blundering unwittingness of goodness. Specifically, Bertolt Brecht has written the story of an angelic prostitute (you never meet any other kind, on the stage, at least) who finds the wordly threats to her integrity so great she must mask herself as a loud-mouthed male. Thus better equipped to operate amid the avarice and lecheries of people, she can more effectively promote the interests of her goodness. Of course this sort of schizophrenia involves evil itself, but the gods don't much care. The world spins on, inexplicably, relentlessly...
...Hazlett who persuaded Ike to try for a military career, helped him cram for his Annapolis-West Point competitive exam. (Ike went to West Point because he was too old for Annapolis.) At his old friend's funeral, the President clenched his face in an immobile mask to hold back tears. When taps died away, he stepped forward and gently kissed Hazlett's widow. Then, with downcast eyes, he marched silently back to his waiting limousine...