Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husbands have forgotten how to take. His couples are always married but rarely to one another. They change lovers the way Americans trade cars. The transfers usually take place for the same reasons-novelty and the pride of ownership. Maurois uses these affairs of passion for classic purposes-to reveal character and find irony rusting the most intense of emotions. Talked out of marrying the wrong American, the heroine of Home Port marries his French equivalent. "You don't change a person's nature," she admits later. "You retouch...
...innocence, but he has been affected and infected by Ford's passion to obliterate evil. Thus, when Guinness flees the police and appeals for help, Burton cannot refuse. "I like you," he says, surprised-"God knows why." Next morning the Tontons offer Burton $2,000 and freedom to reveal the whereabouts of his colleague. The weary, dreary reply is inevitable: "Inflation is everywhere. It used to be 30 pieces of silver." Once he has refused to play Judas, the only role open to him is Jesus...
After the polls close Tuesday, the total number of ballots cast on the antiwar petition will be counted--face down so as not to reveal the results. The ballots will then be sealed and sent to a bank vault. Representatives of CNCV and veterans' groups opposing the petition will accompany the ballots to and from the bank to assure that no tampering occurs...
Even after all those years (it's probably only twenty or so) he has to console himself with an unconvincingly ironic and playful mispronunciation of his feelings. She may indeed have been excellent, but the sonnets reveal that she was also inconsiderate, thoroughly unpredictable, a heavy drinker (perhaps alcoholic), and the wife of a close friend. It still hurts just to remember the lady and his responses to her. Berryman would like us to believe that it all happened when he was still a boy, not a lover, only a wuver...
...COLD WAR AS HISTORY, by Louis J. Halle, peels away the emotions of 1945-62 to reveal one of history's most clear-cut conflicts resulting from Great Power misunderstanding...