Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories about corrosive marriages and disfiguring age-quiet stories, right on target, that may well outlive their flashier contemporaries...
...assignment had no more than the usual subjective aspects. Koerner studied his man, and soon selected for the background the Cheevers' two Roman doves because they seemed to him to symbolize "the peaceful world with which Cheever surrounds himself-the early American furniture, his pets and the quiet...
...hazy distortions of Pierre's vision. We experience his vertigo at a rippling pond, the too-high trees, the electric cars careening in an amusement park. Finally, we appreciate the imbalance of his mental state, but have lost the ability or desire to empathize with him. In a quiet, attractive, inexplicable sense he is crazy, sometimes inscrutably moody or violent; we cannot understand him. Yet he is all the world to both Madeleine and Cybele, and so the film is about them; their profound love for Pierre, and the strange competition between them...
William Worthy, correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American, delivered a quiet denunciation of the Cental Intelligence Agency last night at Dudley House...
...time is a hundred years after the Norman Conquest, and Anouilh roots his conflict in the blood enmity between Henry, great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and his Saxon subject. Henry sneers at Becket as a "collaborator," but in fact the king is sycophant to the courtier, whose quiet contempt holds his master eternally in thrall...