Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parallel Lines. At first sight, Charlie Carmody seems to have the gusto of Frank Skeffington, the roguish politician (modeled on James Michael Curley) who ran away with the earlier novel. But Charlie dwindles into a gabby stage Irishman. Father Kennedy promises to be one of Graham Greene's degraded but tormented priests. Instead, his anguish is smothered in resignation, and his vocation is feeble. Compared with The Last Hurrah, this novel is a kind of lost begorra...
Since the Kennedy and Carmody stories run along parallel lines, they never properly meet. Charlie's story is essentially a rasping family chronicle faintly echoing the mood of Long Day's Journey Into Night. For all his comic-opera ways, Charlie Carmody is a gritty figure out of the immigrant past who clawed his way to wealth as a real estate operator. He can reminisce for hours on the joys of collecting, or extracting, the rent from hard payers. Charlie's son Hugh enters the priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes...
...distance to the nearest self-service laundry, and whether sitters are available or pets permitted. But the most important feature of each volume is the restaurant list, compiled for the most part not by gourmets but by reasonably hungry laymen whose knowledge of food could be expected to parallel that of the average tourist...
Sympathetic Relations. Inevitably, some of the Red newsmen succumbed to habit and unreeled a few meters of the Red line. After the race riots in Birmingham and Montgomery, Pravda's Viktor Maevsky discovered a parallel between the "fascists" of the John Birch Society and the "fascists" who beat up the Freedom Riders. Erofeev complained about the "irresponsibility of the American press." Said he: "We met American corespondents at length, and the next morning articles would appear, vindictive and hostile, destructive of sympathetic relations between our countries...
...page analysis of U.S. debt, that in fundamental economic terms, "we do not appear to be more 'in debt' now than at other times in our recent past." Total debt in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1946-but so has the gross national product, whose parallel growth has kept the relationship of total debt to national production about the same. For those who think the Government is the spendthrift, the growth figures contain some surprises. Since World War II, personal and corporate debt in the U.S. has almost quadrupled, soaring from $154 billion to $582 billion...