Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Isherwood's prose still has the crisp grace of a good tennis match. He is an exterior decorator of chic and competence, whether the setting is Athens, the Alps, or the South of France. But by now he has splashed all the water out of his stagnant, neurotic...
But the play also dragged a good deal out of 19th-century fiction after it. Neurotic young Kostya Triplev wears the musty mantle of European Weltschmerz and Wertherism, and the sea gull, Nina, seems a period heroine who breaks romantically with conventional life, is "ruined" by an interesting older man...
Bracing Brother. In 1932 the Griffins are a well-to-do Los Angeles family, so close that no member breathes except through the smothering palm of another. Father Griffin, balding and in his late 503, is not out of Clarence Day, but out of a manual on corporate management. To...
Tightening up his too-late theme, Author Lewis turns the vise of his plot until poor Crane is crushed. Trouble begins with some petty thieving of company lumber. Then a company truck is am bushed and the driver killed. The major investigates for Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling...
The Old Yellow Fog. In The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a dozen new stories "based on unsolved cases [from] the original . . . stories," Adrian Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur's youngest son) and John Dickson Carr have tried their hands at rebuilding this magic world. Like a pair of Frank Lloyd...