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Word: steadian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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Love Portraits. Miss Herbert, Stead's newest novel, is less ambitious. It is about a foolish woman, carefully framed and lighted so that the outside world exists only as dim periphery. The focus is entirely on the beautiful Eleanor Herbert, a variation on the Steadian observation that the English are not self-conscious hypocrites. Instead, as the author once wrote, they display "a natural ingrained double face from birth. They're the Western Chinese: old and smooth with deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out from Down Under | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

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