Word: misted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liked to draw locomotives, and later cathedrals, striving always for accuracy. Lettering appealed to him because "you don't draw an 'A' and then stand back and say: there, that gives you a good idea of an 'A' as seen through an autumn mist . . . Letters are things, not pictures of things." Moreover, letters, particularly when carved on tombstones, served a clear purpose, and they paid...
...MIST ON THE WATERS (250 pp.)-F. L. Green-Harcourt, Brace...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
Readers may be disturbed by two weaknesses in this otherwise skillful story: its occasional lapses into stilted novelistic clichés, and its too convenient ending which veils coincidence with the appearance of fatality. But for the most part, Mist on the Waters is as good as a first-rate movie thriller. With somebody like Barry Fitzgerald playing the part of Barty Fingal, Hollywood could have a story to work with...
...counties of Northern Ireland are overlaid with ancient mysteries and poetic myths. Last week, renewed religious bitterness also hung like a poisonous mist over the lovely loughs and dales...