Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consistency the tone of paradox and indirection indicated by its title. That its analysis sometimes attains a frightening level of acuteness and power is hardly to be wondered at, for to the mind which views passion as the sole, incontrovertible, demoniac power, ("I reveled in the factuality of the rat") all lesser experience attains a strangely new but clear focus. Morality has long become debased to the procedure of a controlling principle, and soon even this must crumble, for its irrelevance to the absolute is perceived. If Kafka (from whom Beuhling derives much) is read as an anguished, exhausted...
...stag, but that even the regular date would be plagued by "other characters standing around waiting to cut in." He explained that previously, an invitation to a Radcliffe dance was an honor, and he fears that stage will turn a once "quiet, sophisticated evening" into a "rat race...
...swaggering captain-that is suddenly thrown into the Battle of the Bulge. Loathed by his men, the captain gets by with his ambition-ridden colonel because he is the son of an influential political boss in the colonel's home state. To the rumble of tanks and the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, the gutless captain wobbles, crosses up his men, plots to run out on the job, and is finally shot by his most levelheaded subordinate...
...Viking; $3.95). Author Miller, whose second novel, That Winter, showed him as a man who could write without having observed, has produced his fourth novel and can now safely be placed with that group of contemporary novelists who might be called Circumstantialists. The Circumstantialist, like the pack rat, cannot bear to throw anything away. Meticulously, he collects and records every circumstance of his characters' lives. Turning over every last scrap of detail, he seems to hope desperately that somewhere he and the reader may catch some glimpse of a real life beneath the litter of facts. Reunion concerns...
Bogner, at 43, finds his home smashed (two babies died in a rat-infested cellar), his will to work gone sour. He leaves his wife and remaining children because there is literally no room for him in their miserable one-room apartment. But after 15 years of marriage, Fred and Kate Bogner have become a habit with each other. Against a backdrop of Rhineland prosperity, symbolized by a convention of German druggists, Fred borrows enough money to rent a cheap hotel room so that he and his wife can meet without the children seeing or the neighbors listening...