Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having failed last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
Blossom & Shadow. Author Moore allows that Brensham village has its troubles. When the frost strikes the blossoms of its innumerable orchards, the village goes half-penniless the remainder of the year. When rich Londoners buy up and "develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham...
...that Passage to India has inadvertently done a disservice to contemporary readers by its very excellence. It has laid too heavy a shadow on the imagination, casting each new work in the model of its grave and thoughtful characterizations and demanding of each something of the haunting real-and-unreal atmosphere that has come to be identified in the minds of Westerners as India...
...after twelve years the bottom has dropped out of it too. Or at any rate out of last week's half-Ways and Means, Family Album, Red Peppers (this week: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage...
...common chord struck in all the stories-sex not as sensual experience but as a disturbing drive that leads people to behavior they can hardly control and but dimly understand. In one beautiful tale, The Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance...