Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andover and Princeton. At home Ring Sr. never discussed political issues, but the sardonic views that salted his writings also flavored his conversation. Or as his friend Heywood Broun put it, in the jargon of their set: "Under an insulation of isolation and indifference, Ring boiled with a passion against smugness and hypocrisy and the hard heart of the world...
...feat. More typically Trollopian are his incidental, illuminating comments on the normal and everyday: on a country squire ("He endeavored to enable his tenants and laborers to live"); of British hotel coffee ("An unlimited supply of lukewarm water poured over an infinitesimal proportion of chicory"). Trollope's unaccustomed passion for plot is no substitute for more such salty asides, dry touches of humor, and lore of human kind...
...think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion...
This taut little novel takes a sharp look at one of the oldest problems in literature: the origins and consequences of a crime of passion. Like Theodore Dreiser in An American Tragedy, though on a far more modest scale, Novelist Foote has tried to find out and explain why a peaceable, inoffensive man can sometimes be driven to murder. He has set his story in his native Mississippi among the poor-white farmers and the small-town characters he intimately knows...
Spinning out his story in a series of flashback monologues, Novelist Foote has a keen eye for the drama of a small-town courtroom in the South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...