Word: tortuously
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...20th century met, joined and clashed: colonialism, nationalism, Communism interacted violently upon one another. Sometimes such cataclysms throw up one forceful man. or he seizes a ready opportunity. But Indo-China was a place where one man was already waiting, a man who had spent 30 cunning, tortuous years preparing the event, weaving, dodging, converting reverses into successes and eventually triumphing. That man was a strange, blazing-eyed consumptive who called himself Ho Chi Minh...
...LITTLE HORSE BUS, by Graham Greene (Lothrop; $2), carries its author far from his tortuous bypaths of sin and salvation. This is a sunny-spirited little brief for the old corner "grocer's shop" v. the Cellophane-wrapped modernity of a "Hygienic Emporium." A rickety but gallant old horse bus wins the day for tradition in a cops-and-robbers chase, while Illustrator Dorothy Craigie splashes each page with eye-catching color...
...much of the "agony and sweat" that went into his writing. He might, with equal pertinence, have dwelt on the agony and sweat that he requires of his readers. To his admirers, a new Faulkner novel is the event of the year. To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile. This week, after nine years of "anguish and travail," Faulkner unveils A Fable. It is a major effort by a great writer, one that few other...
...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...
...hero four ways, mainly to tell an experimental love story. Marghanita Laski used the simpler, two-way, Jekyll & Hyde approach in The Victorian Chaise Longue (TIME, June 14). In The Bird's Nest, Novelist Shirley Jackson reverts to Toynbee's four-in-one split to document a tortuous case of mental illness...