Word: ness
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...sinner, he does not amount to much, but he does have that Nazi busi ness to brood about...
There are also a great many political asides, all having to do with the various and inclusive insanities of Marxism, capitalism and fascism. All are denounced, while liberation through mad ness is stoutly championed. Sweet Movie, full of unenlightened lunacy, is not really a film at all. It is a social disease...
...tone is the key to it all; it lets McPhee write in an unusually personal way. He begins an article about Loch Ness, home of the monster, by telling his readers that he and his wife and four daughters were sitting next to the Loch picnicking on "milk, potato sticks, lambs' tongues, shortbread, white chocolate, Mini-Dunlop cheese." Another article is about a basketball game McPhee played in some time ago. Another, about a white-water canoeing championship, spends much of its time talking about the kinds of canoes McPhee paddled in as a child and how he went about...
...mistake then, maybe, to violate Hough's softspoken-ness by attributing to him the perception of the detective-martyr, the guardian, as the Christian who reveals society. Maybe it is better to take Gifford on his own humble terms, as a gentle and kind man with an interesting story. But Hough has dropped too many hints here, or made too many mistakes, by endowing this man with such astounding parcels of innocence and responsibility, as to make such a conclusion inevitable...
...British voice booming over the loudspeaker cautioned the spectators to be quiet while the horse in the ring was performing so as not to disturb it. At the sound of his voice a number of horses behind us started up. I shook my head at the Catch-22-ness...