Word: unraveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behrendt's special skill lies in his capacity to unravel the most labyrinthine international maze, and to explain the most convoluted international personality, with a few deft lines. His Castro is a bellower whose gaping mouth reveals a hammer-and-sickle tongue. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is a perspiring sphinx; West Germany's tough old Chancellor Adenauer, an uncrackable walnut. As depicted by Behrendt, France's De Gaulle wears spectacles that reflect the Gaullist cosmos: a double image of Charles de Gaulle himself...
...refusal to accept social and economic changes that have been firmly established in the American way of life, his announced intention of rolling back the course of history to (at the very latest) 1930, his weakness for arguments that unravel the bonds of social unity-these, surely, are the marks of a reactionary, not of a conservative...
...there on the stage?in a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon, by French Playwright Eugene Ionesco?was an actor playing a character called Ionesco, a playwright at work on a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon. Three more characters, each called Bartholomeus, turned up and began to unravel funny skeins of academic pedantry in argument with the playwright...
...novel progresses. Morgan slowly comes to accept death, while Rebeck once again accepts the fact of life. The plot tends to unravel, rather than unwind, but even the spectral characters are vivid, and their collisions are often touching and funny-particularly when women are involved. Morgan entwines with a shade named Laura, who has left her body behind with relief, while Rebeck meets a sensible Brooklyn widow, who tries to lead him back to reality, if that's what Brooklyn can be called...
...Thrill. Louis C. Jones, director of Fenimore House, is doing his best to unravel the mysteries of who might be who in his now enriched gallery. But one of the most intriguing mysteries of all is Mrs. William Gunn herself...