Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUBLIC IMAGE by Muriel Spark. 144 pages. Knopf...
...Muriel Spark's novels are somewhat predictable in form, but they'are always brief, funny, shrewd and a little daft. Usually, she takes a group of similar people-bachelors, schoolgirls, residents of a hamlet-and throws them into a common dilemma. The Public Image departs from that pattern...
There are elements of a thriller in all Spark's fiction, and The Public Image is no exception. The mystery here lies in the recesses of Annabel's personality. "She had never been given to problems" and is slow to recognize catastrophe when it comes calling. But Billy and Luigi succeed in leaving the truth at her door. "We have some Vatican money in this movie, confidentially," purrs Annabel's practical Pygmalion. "The reaction to those letters would finish your movie career...
...constantly carrying us towards peace. But the new President would have to show us why we would be killing ourselves and would have to prove we want to continue doing so. Even a Richard Nixon, who managed to win only in the House, would feel himself unable to spark the needed enthusiasm...
...Tuesday, Cleaver dismissed his class with the admonishment "to do your thing." Immediately afterward, 200 students marched into Sproul Hall to spark the series of demonstrations...