Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balogh's ideas are an. odd mixture of common sense and doctrinaire Pestering. He believes that capitalism is "on the defensive" and distrusts the "North Atlantic Protestant atmosphere" that favors private initiative. "Only totalitarianism and Communist compulsion," he says, "have succeeded in lifting poverty-stricken countries onto the road of progressive improvement." Balogh's tune has hardly changed a note since the early postwar era, when he proclaimed confidently that only the long continuance of direct economic controls could restore Europe's prosperity...
...Anaheim, Calif., Howard and his date are kidnaped by an ice-pick-wielding sex maniac who gets so thoroughly lost on the Ventura Freeway that he has to return home for a road map. He then mumbles to his captives, "Listen, I'm going to have to stay and have dinner. Mother's been keeping a plate warm for me in the oven...
...road trip, generally unpleasant in any sport, meant disaster for the Harvard squash team this weekend...
...Connor, whose death in 1964 was a severe loss to American fiction, is represented by a very long story-so long that it has been separately published as a novel. Wise Blood deals with a familiar theme: man obsessed to the point of fanaticism. The scene is the dirt-road South outside the progressive and prosperous mainstream of U.S. life. In a modern U.S. city, there is no place outside of the psychiatric ward for the hero of Wise Blood, a gaunt drifter who blinds himself the better to see God and extinguish the devil...
...black men of God or little black shriveled sacks with the calling still in their protruding bones"; and it achieves minor effects as perfectly as large ones, like the setting of the father's long monologue: "You know the church, Edward. It's where the chickens always block the road if you're out driving." Throughout, the prose moderates the shock of surrealistic events by its quiet, measured tones; yet it can rise harmoniously to a rather violent crescendo...