Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most common Radcliffe malady is this thing about relationships with men. Radcliffe women tend to mask their abilities in a variety of ways. Sometimes it come out in a kind of militant explosion. But mostly the girls don't talk in class. Mostly, the guys talk. There is still this business about 'I don't dare show these guys either how dumb they are or how smart I am' because of the 'fragile male...
...battle. He was remarkably observant, sometimes with a grisly poetry: "Saw a lot of dead Germans yesterday frozen in funny attitudes. I did not have my color camera, which was a pity, as their faces were a pale claret color." Gradually he crystallized his personality into a hard, violent mask. "My private opinion," he wrote in 1945, "is that practically everyone but myself is a pusillanimous son of a bitch...
Look at the Harlequins! purports to be a writer's memoirs, an "oblique autobiography," although at times the mask slips and we find ourselves looking over the narrator's shoulder at his memoirs-in-progress: "I was eighteen when the Bolshevist revolution struck--a strong and anomalous verb, I concede, used here solely for the sake of narrative rhythm." Sometimes, indeed, the effect is rather witty...
...catch his breath, told Brodeur. But then he recalled one warning from J.W. McMillan, another plant manager: "It's funny, ain't it? I mean, Mr. McMillan knew it was dangerous, and he died of cancer himself not long ago, but he never said to wear a mask...
...fiercely at auctions. With cold passion, they study the artifacts of vanquished people; blankly, they watch for signs of ignorance or weakness in competitors, especially newcomers like Muhlbach. Having acquired a little knowledge, he quickly obliges them. He successfully bids on what he takes to be an Olmec jade mask, realizing only as the hammer falls that none of the authentic dealers had been nibbling...