Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Querétaro, LÓpez Mateos handled one of Mexico's hottest issues: religion. Countering the violently anticlerical traditions of the Mexican revolution, he promised "absolute freedom of belief" and told a Roman Catholic worker that his convictions "should remain invariable, letting neither time nor intrigue shadow them...
...novels of sin and sun, the weather would cloud up on cue, providing a timpani accompaniment to the heroine's rages. Robbe-Grillet cheerfully invents a greater fault. Obsessed by the reality of objects, he describes them endlessly, and then repeats his descriptions-a column that casts a shadow, a squashed centipede, the location of a window, of a garden. In one maddening three-page section, he explains carefully the shape of the banana fields, the number of rows in each field, how many trees stand in each row. Such writing is not merely capricious; the looming fact...
...dark shadow clouded Kosygin's glowing canvas: the poor 1959 grain harvest. Because of "unfavorable weather conditions" in the Ukraine, Kosygin said, the yield would merely "exceed the average annual harvest for the last five years." This was a tricky way of saying that the 1959 crop would be 20% below last year...
...minute factual detail, Ellmann fashions a Ulyssean portrait that has the lived-with, lived-through intensity of a major novel. Never before have people so painfully close to Joyce stepped so personably out of the shadow of his reputation. There is his father John, a barroom wit and tosspot, would-be singer and doctor, who sired ten children and saddled his brood with eleven mortgages. There is Joyce's wife Nora, a Galway girl with a tart tongue and no head for "that chop suey he's writing," as she once said of Finnegans Wake. There is Brother...
There were some who questioned the idea of a traffic-free interior city. "Rome cannot live in the shadow of its ruins," sighed // Tempo. "Rome is not Pompeii, but a living metropolis...