Word: pyramids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PYRAMID, by William Golding. A deceptively simple story of a man's simultaneous rise and fall, absorbingly told by Golding and buttressing his view that original sin is an anthropological fact...
...PYRAMID by William Golding. 183 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...rather unreal island; The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin dealt with a mid-Atlantic castaway who seems to choose life with pain over easeful death, but is in fact already dead and in purgatory; The Spire set a drama of spirit and flesh in a remote time. The Pyramid represents no retreat from these tours de force, but Golding's command of fiction is now such that he can dress his tragedians in street clothes, put them on a topographically exact stage and fix the time in the present. This is a more interesting literary exploit...
Abortive Lives. Ostensibly, The Pyramid is a simple story told by a man named Oliver, who recounts his life at three stages. The base of this living pyramid is an English village near the Trollopean cathedral town of Barchester; the village is Stilbourne, appropriately named, since it encloses so many deformed and abortive lives...
...business careers, singlehood has its liabilities. As Vance Packard reports in The Pyramid Climbers: "In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too busy with his love life to devote full attention to his job. "The worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn't married. Is it because he isn't virile? Is he old-maidish...