Word: rare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contemporary critics kissed off Derby Day as vulgar and commonplace, but it offers today's viewers a rare opportunity to rub elbows with a red-blooded race of Britons sporting in a roseate world when the pound seemed forever sound. In addition, Frith's breezy freshness and mundane subject matter mark him as an artist who did more to announce Manet and Degas than either he or they would have been prepared to admit...
...pits his antagonists against each other; as he records the radical shifts in their emotional climate, the changes can be felt like heat or sleet. Blade of Light is both more powerful and more controlled than Hard Rain Falling. A calculated, mood-ridden shocker, it is that relatively rare product in contemporary fiction: a strong second novel...
...arrogance that is hard to escape. Viewing ourselves as teachers, for example, it is tempting to think of Ecuadorians as our students and hence to treat them as children. Volunteers' language often reflects this attitude: it is no rare thing to hear a frustrated worker complain about "those stupid lazy campesinos," his neighbors. And Volunteers' style of life is often just as offensive, for in towns and cities the Peace Corps members tend to form small gringo enclaves...
Vernaglia remains on the "danger list" at Massachusetts General Hospital, but his father said that he has "regained consciousness at rare intervals" and spoken a few words. Last night Vernaglia was able to drink some water, and his father said that doctors are "optimistic he'll regain complete consciousness in a few days...
...opportunity for Americans to see what goes on in North Vietnam. Greene is a British subject (a cousin of the novelist Graham Greene) who has lived in the United States for the past two decades. Since he made his first trip to China in 1956, he has had a rare entre into the world of Asian Communism. He and Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett seem to have cornered the market for providing the "other side" of the story to the West. It makes for interesting education...