Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A gently satirical novel about the surprisingly secular problems of a fund-raising Catholic priest, written with fondness and perception but, the Lord be thanked, not a trace of cuteness...
After the end of the world, the lovers emerge from the mausoleum to find a universe cleansed. "The hour will come when you will ripen and burst, and we shall harvest the fruits of our love," the young man says. "A trace of us will remain, etched in flesh, and nothing more eternal will ever be built more proudly or more boldly than the flesh of our flesh perfumed with...
There was little trace of cold war nerves. Once, when a dancer was asked a question in Russian, he demanded suspiciously: "Are you from the State Department?" But most of the time, the Russian sense of humor, which is generally left at home by everyone, poured out uninhibitedly. At a street festival in the city's principal Italian colony, for example, the group was confronted by an earnest patriot who was trying to pin small American flags to the blouses and lapels of everyone in the jammed crowd. One Russian boy let himself get pinned. Others laughed...
...familiar DDT), are used in enormous quantities by almost everyone. Much of Miss Carson's case against spraying depends on her contention that DDT and its near chemical relatives are poisonous to humans, especially since they tend to accumulate in fatty tissues. Experts do not agree. A mere trace of DDT kills insects, but humans and other mammals can absorb large doses without damage. Dr. Wayland J. Hayes, chief of the toxicology section of the U.S. Public Health Service in Atlanta says that every meal served in the U.S. probably contains a trace of DDT, but that this...
...Keilson traces the growth of hatred in his leading character as other writers trace love or self-knowledge. When a small child, the nameless hero gets his first inkling that he has an enemy. In hushed voices, his parents discuss a party leader called B., a thinly disguised Hitler who is rising to power by attacking a minority...