Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the local children, but some obscure loneliness finally drives him to marry a backwoods girl he picked up in a soda fountain. When the girl, who is even more childish than Ponder himself, dies under mysterious circumstances, he is indicted for murder. The trial provides tension for the plot...
Authors Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodrov, however, do not search for comical situations in a plot which obviously has none to offer. Instead, they unmercifully exploit the humorous possibilities of Ponder's eccentricity. As a result, it is practically impossible to laugh with a character who must have been whimsical when short story writer Eudora Welty first created him. One has to laugh at him if one is to laugh at all; a lot of cruelty lies hidden underneath the glib surface of the comedy...
Then they settled down in the secrecy of the Senior Common room to plot the future of the House system. Until almost 5:30 they talked of common rooms and things. Then they split up to visit the various Houses and later rejoined each other for dinner at the Society of Fellows, then another secret meeting with the Masters, and then they went...
...philosophy. The English playwright apparently set out to describe the state of mankind in a world at war, with man represented by four prisoners locked up in an unused church. Instead of presenting his ideas--which say pretty much that "no man is an island"--through a conventional plot, Fry approaches his theme through the dreams of the captives. Each of the dreams is based on a Biblical story, but despite their common basis they never seem to merge into a coherent whole...
After two years of army duty, Alexis comes home to London and finds Rose ensconced as his uncle's mistress. Alexis coaxes her into a bedroom reunion, but at this point and over the next decade, the plot begins subdividing like an amoeba: 1) Rose takes up with a 20-year-old named Vincent; 2) Sir George dies; 3) Alexis and another of Uncle George's girl friends, an Italian contessa, get high at his funeral and land flat in some French hay; 4) Rose's and Uncle George's daughter Jenny, by now a remarkably...