Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thundering ocean, four simple Soviet lads bore aloft the torch of bravery. Soviet people are a special alloy!" One Russian correspondent breathlessly reported that not once during their ordeal had any of the four said a harsh word to another. Pravda could not resist contrasting this with the despair, terror, "fears and sorrowful prayers" left behind in the diary of the missing World War II U.S. bomber crew whose bodies were recently found in the Libyan desert...
What the novel shares with The Lost Weekend, a famed and far better book of 16 years ago, is the gift for making the nightmarish thirst and terror of an alcoholic demoniacally real...
...flesh and the eternal loneliness of the soul," between short, delirious summers and interminable bitter winters of deep-country solitude. But Bergman's sense of inner division is so strong that once (or so he claims) he walked into a room, saw a standing figure, realized with terror that the figure was himself, his Doppelgaenger. Even the two sides of his face seem startlingly unrelated. The right side looks strangely dead, the left side vividly alive. And he can see much better with his left eye, hear more keenly with his left...
...talent "to express the current dilemma," which he sees as a religious dilemma. God's in his heaven, says Bergman, all's wrong with the world. Man needs a God much closer to home, a God within himself. "If God is not there, life is an outrageous terror" ruled by fate, which has "no answers, merely appointments." Nevertheless, "nobody can live with Death before his eyes, and the knowledge of the nothingness of all things." Life must have a meaning. But the search for meaning ends in empty words and an empty heart...
...life on crutches. Despite such relative immobility, Author O'Connor manages to visit remote and dreadful places of the human spirit. In Wise Blood (TIME, June 9 1952) and A Good Man Is Hard to Find (TIME, June 6, 1955), she dealt with weird turns of terror and violence as naturally as if she had observed them on her farm. In her new novel, a kind of horror story of faith, the characters are for or against God with a kind of vindictiveness that, the reader sometimes feels, must make even Him uneasy...