Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Underneath the story of the gentle, Christ-like Cathleen, Yeats suggests morals, and points to open questions, usually on the level of simplicity and common sense. Famine, for example, is clearly a great road away from religion. Devils are often triumphant in the material world; they pay. Moreover, they can even pay with Cathleen's--and through her, God's--money...
...clear that the extent of free will is difficult to determine in a country where patriotism and totalitarianism often operate together. As Khruschev notes, Western observers are far from comprehending the Slavic Soul. To many economists, though, the tactics behind Khrushchev's gigantic game of monopoly are as hard to interpret as the Russians' unanimous approval...
This basis cannot be told to someone like a formula but can only be recognized by an intuition educated by long training, he said. A public trained on tawdry objects often cannot have an intuition capable of recognizing serious...
Luckily there are redeeming graces later in the collection. The few splendidly worked-out bits of the macabre, however, are too often marred by overexplicit final comments on them. Situations whose full explanations have already been slyly suggested are left with less impact by authors afraid to lead the reader to finish the thought. Overexplaining away the power of a haunting ending is a drawback in, among others, Philip MacDonald, who tediously overends his tale of a brutal murderer's being saved by murder. Perhaps TV would always demand a soothing or at least carefully explicit ending; books...
...Often, of course, Hitchcock realizes this. Occasional implicit grotesqueness along with the horrible images, the examples of practicable black magic, and the demonstrations that crime does pay after all clearly take advantage of what books can do and screens cannot...