Word: secretse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using Stingo as his narrator, Styron follows these three characters through a long hot summer. Stingo wrestles with his novel, watches a strange deterioration in his friend Nathan and becomes increasingly the confidant of Sophie. Her tale evolves slowly, hesitantly; she is riven with the guilt of a survivor. There...
The first half of the novel is a merry comedy of errors and enmities. But when Robert unexpectedly disappears, leaving behind blackmail notes full of corrosive charges and half-truths, the tone sours. His victims are forced to face ugly personal secrets that they have tried to bury. Territorial Rights...
"'Sure,' God said. 'I'm Hero of Heaven. I call on Myself.' That was when He began His explanations. He revealed the secrets of books, of pictures and music . . . why marches were more selfish than anthems, lieder less stirring than scat, why landscapes were to...
There is talk of Cuisinarts and couscous and knives as the group waits for the class to start. Then everybody scribbles away on a clipboard while Hazan ticks off on two big wall maps the different gastronomical and geographical regions of Italy ("We have 6,000 basic recipes"), expounds the...
The Government has never spelled out just how it wants to break up IBM to foster competition. Any "relief that the court eventually may grant must be based on up-to-date information. So last January-ironically on the tenth anniversary of the case-the Government made yet another discovery...