Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarrell's women are nature's betrayed, sullen spectators at the passing parade. Only in the fleeting world of fantasy do they find escape...
...Sullen Lout. Gouffé, a well-to-do Parisian of respectable habits, vanishes and his brother-in-law Jacquemar appeals for help to Goron, the potbellied, hamster-cheeked chief of police. In some hundred pages of hard work and intuitive skill, Goron pieces together the scanty clues, finds Gouffe's body and arrests his undoubted murderers-a sullen lout named Eyraudt, who had fled to, of all places, Chicopee, Mass., and a young prostitute named Gabrielle Bompard, who makes even the smoldering Justine of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet appear fairly innocuous by comparison...
...Eulalie"'. "I dwelt a world of moan, And my was a stagnant tide, Till the gentle Eulalie became my bride." Of these I on Macaulay most: to Spain and saw only disguised and increased , dominions of vast bulk strength, tempting, un, and defenseless, an empty ry, a sullen and torpid nation, on the throne, factions on the council, ministers who served only themselves, and soldiers who were terrible only to their countrymen, Men looked to France, and saw a large and compact territory, a rich soil, a central situation...an active and ambitious prince, in the flower...
...matter how mature his brush became or how rich his palette, his paintings never lost their Oriental lilt. His women were sensuous and thoroughly American, but they were nearly always by themselves, sad and impassive. What impressed him about the West was not its crops and bellowing herds, but sullen stillness before a prairie storm or an eerie milk train passing in the night. Kuniyoshi's America seemed to have neither skyscraper nor factory. It was a land where fantasy stretched from horizon to horizon and a child played mindlessly in the ruins of a ghost town...
What the world needs is a suspense novel in which a guileless Arab touring New York stumbles across a gang of Macadamia nut smugglers and is pursued across the wastes of Scarsdale by admen armed with barbecue spits, while sullen peasants riding power mowers close in menacingly. In the meantime, thriller writers still prefer the Mideast or Southern Europe for their setting. Two of the better new blood-and-Baedekers...