Word: momentâ
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What is there left to analyze, then, when one tries to pull them apart? A mood?a moment???a fragrance? sorrow?joy?a living man, a living woman, suddenly, completely seen...
...civilized, concerned with the first twenty-odd years or so of the life of Marigold Trent, whose " guiding impulses " were " politeness and a feeling for the dramatic." She posed to herself, her relatives, her suitors, her friends, her husband?always charmingly, always quite believing the pose of the moment???and nearly always getting herself and all around her into bushels of trouble. The ingrained human fondness for self-dramatization has seldom been more ingratiatingly described than in this charming and sometimes poignant comedy of the impulses and poses of a highly attractive young American...