Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heads. Eddie Gein read a lot, mostly magazines and detective stories. When he dropped in on neighbors or at a Plainfield ice-cream parlor (he almost never drank), Eddie seemed well informed, especially about the latest crime sensation, often volunteered ideas about how the criminal might have got away. When a crime was committed nearby, rail-thin (5 ft. 8 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-looking, mild-spoken Eddie Gein sometimes said he had done it. His hearers laughed. To a neighbor-storekeeper's son, Bob Hill, Gein showed what he called "a couple of shrunken heads" that he said...
...husband and a hard fate. Hers is a willful, self-righteous strength gloating over weakness in others; hers is a puritan nature full of repressed sexuality and cankering resentments, and the conviction that what has happened is retribution for sin. Seen as a pathological figure, Margaret is valid and often effective. Moreover, the play highlights how abnormal she is by setting her against a blowzy, easygoing neighbor woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something other than a dispassionate psychological study. Playwright Wishengrad has identified her with...
...example, might study original writings of the late nineteenth century in order to determine for himself the causes of Progressivism. This would at the same time give him a more integral view of historical movements, which the discrete quality of his courses--economic, political, social or intellectual history--often precludes...
Unfortunately, during the first two-thirds of the story the professor often loses the reader as well as himself in his abstract speculations on his own emotional life. The third person is used for first person narrative, a very difficult device to handle, and sometimes runs away from the story in efforts to explain the professor's reaction to people, things, or thoughts. Too many elements are unsuccessfully introduced and confusion ensues. In the last part, however, when the narrative centers more exclusively around the man and his son, it works much better...
...more on the level of that displayed toward the end could have greatly helped the story achieve a "most proper tone" rather than simply a "proper tone." As it stands now, the contrast between the professor's richly erudite language and the normal or sub-normal speech of others often jars rather than enhances the otherwise well-sustained tone...