Word: regressive
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...upward-looking soliloquy that treats very wisely of life and death, Miss Duke asks a contemporary with open-mouthed wonder, "Duh--what's an agnostic?" Miss Duke and her playmate (James Aubrey) seem mature beyond their years throughout most of the play, but in the final scene they regress practically back to the womb, before surging back into virtual senescence for some metaphysical meanderings...
...eyes of easily distracted average readers regress eight to eleven times per 100 words. Teacher Wood's beginning students curb this tendency by running their fingers under each line, then every other line, until they learn the "whirlaway motion"-a series of circular sweeps down the middle of the page. In 2½-hour sessions (plus one hour of daily practice), they read faster and faster against a clock, get constant quizzes on comprehension...
...Regress into Cinema. In prose that is often witty and sometimes arch, Author Sanders (who swears he is ghostless) describes his descent into cinema villainy. No memoir can be got under way properly without the introduction of a clotty relative, and the author, who was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family, recalls with admiration the pre-Revolution pastime of his favorite uncle, who used to lie in bed with a .22 pistol and shoot flies which gathered on the ceiling to eat the jam he had smeared there. Footmen stood by, Sanders recalls, with champagne, ammunition and more...
Both Kafka and Orwell might have created the author's weird wine cellar-Kafka so that the flyers might molder in the hallucinatory dark, Orwell in order that they might escape to comment ironically on the world's regress. But British Author Shaw, a stage and movie actor who wrote the book between engagements, describes his characters deftly in the manner of the standard psychological novel. Hans is a latent homosexual who tends his human house pets as a kind of offering to his Fuehrer and his dead, domineering mother. Wilson, the older of the two flyers...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TIME...