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...seven-year exile in France and closes with his murder at the hands of the King's soldiers. It is the study of a man who has the choice of deciding his own fate, or submitting himself to the will of the inevitable, the will of his God. His torment lies in the fact that either choice will result in the same outcome-a martyr's death. Becket finds such a death to be the ultimate path to his long-held desires for power and glory; humble submission to the will of God demands the same sacrifice. Salvation or damnation...
Halting a trend toward more participation in post-season torment play, the Ivy League presidents decided today not to allow any Ivy basketball teams to accept a bid to the National Invitational Tournament...
...antigravity and fight with disintegrators. Naturally they win, and the struggle occupies the best quarter of the book: in the process, they make contact with Atlantis. Mars, and a resurgent, powerful Navaho nation. They also meet Black Barney, the Air Pirate of India, and the archfiends who will torment them for the next 40 years-Coe Kane, (a slick double agent known as "Killer" to everyone but his brother Nova) and his slithery sidekick Ardala...
...circumstances in his first two novels, The Lost Country and Lilith. Just because the Pritchards are so ordinary, the corruption wrought by self-knowledge in A Sea Change is more ironic and profound. In an attempt to provoke a return to the freshness of their early love, the Pritchards torment each other in various subtle as well as insidious ways-until nothing is left of their marriage...
...were viewing the crucifixion and being crucified at the same time. The incantatory rendering of dialogue sometimes resembles the Mass. The sounds that the cast utters are as arresting as if they were the cries of the damned in hell. On the rack of torment, Cieslak's body shudders convulsively from head to toe, and few athletes could begin to match the physical suppleness of a cast that seems as fit for dance as drama. At times, the company freezes in still lifes of agony. One is constantly aware of Cieslak's psychic pain, a pain beyond tears...