Word: smotherses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brant can still whack out a crackling paragraph in the style of his old newspaper days. But in his sixth volume, as in the previous five, he smothers this talent by his pack-rat compulsion to drag in everything pertaining to Madison and his times, no matter how deadening it...
Electro (by Sophocles) has one of those scenes of naked emotional intensity that have been missing on the stage since Olivier gave his howl of self-recognition as Oedipus. It comes when Electra, played by Aspassia Papathanassiou, sees the urn that supposedly contains the ashes of her brother Orestes. She...
Apart from the celluloid clichés, there is a legitimate drama to the whole monstrous crime, and Uris captures some of it. Unfortunately, the scale of racial mass murder dwarfs the individual. The enormity of horror resembles a cataclysm of nature like an earthquake or a typhoon, and the...
The Strength of Size. As the African states have emerged to independence, United Africa has actively sought ways to cooperate with their new nationalism. To avoid charges that it smothers native enterprise, the company has begun to cut back on its retail operations and expand its role as a wholesale...
After six years they have two children and nothing in common. Running across a Negro maid (Odetta) who worked in the brothel, the heroine hires her to look after the children and to remind her of the "sanctuary" of sin and pleasure that she loved so well. Then, without warning...