Word: masked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing much happens in these stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy...
...page to find an answer and a new frame the equivalent of switching frames on a machine. That permits easy cheating, but book programers argue that interesting programing eliminates the desire to peek ahead. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films' big programing division uses nothing but books, employing a plastic mask to reveal frames...
Almost every being and thing on Ernst's earth wears a borrowed mask...
...operating theater whose big windows fronted on the jungle, the woman patient's abdomen was laid open. Surgeon Olwen Silgardo was worried. The mask could not filter out the strain in his voice as he asked: "Somebody send for the old man, please." The old man hurried in without waiting to don a mask. "Is that a cyst?" he asked. "No," answered Silgardo, "it looks as though a tumor has spread." The old man asked: "Do you mind if I get my hands in there?" A nurse helped him into his surgical gloves. The two doctors proceeded...
...final chapter, Rosenberg discusses some modern trends and the relationship of the Jewish myth to anti-semitism. "The myth of Shylock has, as it has once before, given rise to the countermyth: the myth of the Jew as artist, as aesthete, as hypersensitive and anxious man; and in this mask he has engaged the attention of the great novelists of our century. For the creators of Swann (but also Bloch), of Leopold Bloom, Joseph K, as well as the recreator of the Biblical Joseph, the Jew has come to reflect increasingly the problems and pressures of Western...