Word: sharers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival (a ceremony which supposedly reinvigorated the old Pharaohs) or as a tomb for the ka, the invisible double who went along everywhere as the secret sharer of an ancient Egyptian's life and death...
...concentrated, then, on the three short novels and five longer ones which are most congenial to his critical methods: "The Secret Sharer," "The Shadow Line," "Heart of Darkness," The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. The method involves three great concerns--for prose style, for narrative technique and for the psycho-mythical element. The combination is not as confining as it sounds; a closely argued and integrated discussion of the first five novels cited above on these three bases covers them with commendable through-ness. Indeed, the chapters on Nigger and Lord...
...Celestial Bed" (fee: ?100 per night) somewhat fatiguing could retreat to another bed to be refreshed with charges of "Magneto-Electric" virility (fee: ?50 per night). Dr. Graham soon abdicated from his "Electrical Throne," but Emma Lyons married Sir William Hamilton and, in due course, became the historic sharer of the celestial bed of Admiral Lord Nelson...
...country's needs for energy are expanding so rapidly that the ultimate problem is not what fuel is going to be crowded out, but what can come along to help carry the rapidly growing load. [Atomic energy] will be not a competitor but a burden sharer...
...first episode, based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer, considers the moral dilemma of a young captain (James Mason) who gives refuge on board his ship to a murderer (Michael Pate), and, after much soul-searching, decides to set him free. Conrad's story wrestled with one of his favorite themes: the judge and the judged. By jettisoning the inner probing and the moral preoccupation of the original, the film emerges as a becalmed, dialogue-ridden mood piece...