Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absurd and decidedly lurid. But to a story bordering on trash, Charlotte Bronte brought storytelling bordering on genius. Told by uncoy, buffeted, orphanage-bred Jane herself-who comes as governess to Thornfield Hall, where the Byronic Mr. Rochester has a mad wife hidden away-Jane Eyre advances, in a rush of words, with a beat of real emotion...
Transfigured View. Malamud is primarily a fantasist who starts out with people as sweaty and real as subway rush-hour passengers, but soon has them clothed in white and silver and singing hosannahs. His characters have the compelling quality of doing astonishingly inappropriate things and then forcing others to recognize a Tightness in their appalling behavior. At his best, Malamud is often as funny and earthy as the great Jewish humorist, Shalom Aleichem. But in his transfigured view of the world he may lie even closer to Francois Mauriac, the Catholic moralist who also holds that "the marks left...
...Nikita Khrushchev's first acts on the death of Stalin was to rush to Belgrade to bear-hug the heretic Tito, and to endorse his thesis of "different roads to Socialism." But now that Khrushchev holds both of Stalin's positions (party secretary and Premier), and now that he has Poland and Hungary more or less under control, he obviously feels less need to placate heretics. Sounding like his old master, Khrushchev last week publicly rebuked Tito for the very deviations that aroused Stalin...
Police reported a "mild rush" on spaces in the Business School parking lot, with about 18 spaces rented yesterday. Fifty spaces in the lot are still available...
...wore on his face as he spoke was striking. His whole life had been confined to association with a few intensely dedicated people, and now he longed to enter the world of the apathetic masses, the people who had somehow been forgotten by the radicals in the great rush toward Saviorism...