Word: sparser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With any such retelling comes the added fascination of comparison: it is like returning to a former home to see how someone else has furnished it. In Cue for Passion the furnishings are sparser and extremely modern, with a picture window to let in strong, clarifying, psychological light. Hamlet, called Tony Burgess, comes home-sulky, sneering, perverse-after two years in Asia, certain that his new stepfather was his mother's paramour, suspecting he is also his father's murderer. This is an Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified...
...Johnson, living in a sparser age, used "scoundrel" in the singular...
...critic said, "a glorified edition of the ordinary man." On the other hand, her biography of him might equally well be called an ordinary .edition of a glorified man. It lists and describes, precisely but unimaginatively, practically everything Wells ever wrote, and it proceeds in a similar, if sparser, fashion to tick off the rest of the Wells story (falling back on pseudonyms where living people are scandalously involved). In short, it makes of "H.G." pretty much what a Baedeker would make of Alice in Wonderland...