Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians are now holding many Italians against their will. Perhaps many died in slave-labor camps. But most of them probably fell in battle or died of starvation or disease in the terrible winter retreat of 1942-43. Uncounted thousands of Germans, Russians and probably Italians lie buried in shallow graves hurriedly hacked in the frozen steppes across the Ukraine...
Consistent but Shallow. With his usual sharp and overly detailed sense of time, place, speech and custom, O'Hara sets the scene. The events are dramatic enough-the murder itself, a near lynching, and several seductions (not nearly as many, though, as in recent O'Hara novels). But the real drama, revealed piecemeal and with a strange detachment, takes place in Millhouser's own soul. He was born in the 1850s, idolized his father, and never really recovered from the father's death shortly after the Civil War. His mother, a strong but withdrawn woman, could...
...uproar, the young man walks home. "That's another day finished," he says to himself. There is not much to distinguish the young man who is undisturbed by the whore's embarrassment from several other young men in the collection, including the indoor sport who seduces the shallow young wife of the title story. Moravia's people do not really have faces, perhaps because he is less interested in writing of people than in describing the enormous distances that separate them. But he has surveyed those spaces with great exactness. Reconciliation of a sort follows the adulterous...