Word: recurred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book has several elements that recur in The Stranger: the sun-drenched Algerian setting, a restless clerk named Mersault whose mother dies, a restaurant keeper named Celeste. This Mersault, more open and spontaneous than in The Stranger, sees himself as a Sisyphus whose particular boulder is office work-"those eight hours a day other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive...
...number of image patterns persist and recur, forming a kind of psychograph of the way women are viewed in modern drama...
...that makes "Tommy" sound like "My Generation" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" seem a warmed-over-version of "The Lord's Prayer." It is a musical work of a complexity that jars the senses and shocks the mind. Musical ideas are clearly laid out and defined while themes occur and recur. The voices blend with tumultuous intensity while the instruments constantly expand until they finally obtain the feel of a full orchestra...
...truth of a family is like the truth of an ocean, a series of movements in which themes occur and recur," the author writes. It seems particularly true of adolescence. Urie informs Zeb, an ardent believer, that there is no God, that Socrates was a better man than Jesus. When the young man recovers, they go on to other intellectual topics-something called "the Cult of Ugliness," then the "sexual power of puberty," and finally, of course, Krafft-Ebing. But their first kiss leads only to a more metaphysical discussion. Clearly such cerebral lovers have no future. For sex Urie...
...quite strict rules: up early, to bed by ten or eleven, assigned chores, a certain number of mandatory Bible readings or prayer gatherings. Yet they generally are happy places. "It is a gentle place, this Solid Rock," reports TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager. "The voices are quiet, the words that recur are 'love' and 'blessing' and 'the Lord' and 'sharing' and 'peace' and 'brothers and sisters.'" Twelve "brothers and sisters" live in Solid Rock, six men, four women, two babies, the children of unmarried mothers. The men of the commune work at house painting and construction to meet the bills...