Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find in a first novel. The mellowness with which Mr. Flood tells his story, with absence of any intensity in episode or character, does not transmit the feeling inherent in the novel's conception. He describes even the most chilling events of his story--Henry's breakdown, the ruin of his first marriage, the dry-rot of his second--with a placidity which seems to confide to the reader that all will work out happily. As a result, the affirmation of man's capacity for love and understanding which the whole novel represents--in its story, characters, and mood...
...weighed 4 Ibs. or less at birth, one out of every eight reared in hospital incubators was going blind. Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the blood vessels of the retina would fan out in wild profusion. Fibrous tissue growing behind the lens would cloud the eyes and ruin the retina. Doctors were baffled. They could do little more than tag the disease with a name, retrolental fibroplasia (R.L.F...
...Oatis knew what to expect, since the secret police had already warned him "if anyone opposes us, we ruin him. You'll talk; everybody talks here." For hour upon unbearable hour, questioners brought statements before him to sign. At first, Oatis objected to the "confession," redrafted it and made corrections; each time it came back written in even stronger language. "I had been awake for something like 42 hours . . . They would not let me sleep till I had signed, and so I signed [because] of my absolute helplessness, convinced that my only hope lay in playing their game...
...these strong, tender stories of life at its most universal levels are among his best. After Verga, Frenchman Gil Buhet's The Innocent Knights (Viking) may seem like Gallic fluff. Actually, it is a charming story about a gang of schoolboys who shut themselves up in a moated ruin until their unjust elders and schoolmasters are ready to treat them like human beings...
...books he savagely dissected early American capitalism-in a predatory era when Cornelius Vanderbilt could write to his associates: "Gentlemen, you have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you." Veblen took a closer look at the people Marx called the ruling class, and produced a new label: the leisure class. The businessman, to Veblen, was a saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world...