Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOUNTOLIVE by Lawrence Durrell. This third book of a brilliantly conceived tetralogy is the least so far published, but it still makes most contemporary fictioners seem like placid carpenters. Against its motley Egyptian background, a raffish, colorful lot of native and international characters plot, sin and love with an intensity that edges every page with fever...
...best sense, the Connery-McLaughlin operation was an example of TIME journalism. From the man on the scene had come a knowledgeable, fact-filled report to be handled by a skilled writer who on his own time has written short stories and three novels (latest: The Notion of Sin), and who could, out of his own experience, make contributions to what TIME hopes Indira Gandhi will consider an accurate portrayal of changing India...
...Voyeur (TIME, Oct. 13, 1958), it is also thoroughly irritating. A prosaic love triangle is established on a remote banana plantation-a planter (the book's nameless narrator), his wife and a neighboring plantation owner. If this were one of Paul Bowles's African 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...
Child, behold that Man of Sin, the POPE, worthy of thy utmost hatred...
...remember you at Christmastime.' Is this not payola? Have there not been accusations of this sort in the garment industry, in any number of international unions? Payola in one form or another is a part of American business ... I say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...