Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...
Then, during the pillage of Mantes, William's horse, stumbled and threw him against the pommel of the saddle. That did it. The injured sac became gangrenous and William, at 59 an old man by medieval standards, could not combat the infection. At last the sac ruptured, Miss Gardner believes, and peritonitis developed. One consolation: even if William's doctors had known what was the matter with him, they wouldn't have known what to do; they had no sulfonamide drugs and no techniques for abdominal surgery...
...best stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin's craftiness under a surface of bland innocence, his greed for power and his contempt for weak grownups...
Like Richard Hughes's famed A High Wind in Jamaica, Miss Barker's Innocents takes the mental world of children with unsentimental seriousness. Storyteller Barker works surely from within the child's range of comprehension, accurately describes the forging of a child's protective armor...
British Critics V. S. Pritchett and C. Day Lewis made no mistake when they gave Miss Barker the Maugham Award. Nor did the London Daily Mail's Peter Quennell, when he praised her for writing of people "she seems to know and feel for -from the soles of their erring feet to the crowns of their shining heads...