Word: unraveler
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...caste and class: tennis rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes, partnership in a Wall Street banking house, two wives, two mistresses. It is part of Alfred Eaton's tragedy that he cannot unravel these possessions in time to find himself. It is part of Author O'Hara's semifailure in his most ambitiously conceived novel that the embalmers art which he brings to this saga often gives Alfred Eaton only a bloodless reality, a kind of rouge to live...
...cliche that became fashionable ear ly in the 20th century - "A man is as old as his arteries" - may have to be revised to "A man is as old as his enzymes." Then, as researchers unravel the mys teries of enzyme chemistry, enzyme supplements for mature men and women may adorn the breakfast table, instead of the currently popular but cruder vitamins...
Copy for Tolstoy. Ségur was seldom far from the Emperor's side during the five fearful months that it took to unravel Napoleon's grand design. He was close enough to hear Napoleon exclaim as he came within sight of the Muscovite capital of logs and gilded domes: "So here at last is that famous city! It was high time!" The remark was used by Tolstoy in War and Peace; probably one of the original French editions of Ségur's journal (first in 1824) was before Tolstoy as he wrote his masterpiece...
...mysteries because she wanted to save her real name for "the kind of books I wanted to write, such as Rachel Weeping." On the strength of this book, the more remarkable because she has no children, she is almost ready to use her own name. If it does not unravel completely the mysteries of extreme youth that it poses, it at least has the power to make adults shudder at the unwitting wrongs they can do the very young...
Home from the Hill is notable for its firm evocation of small-town attitudes. Like Faulkner, Humphrey knows that customs, especially Southern customs, are as important as life itself, and that to flout them can mean inviting death. Unlike Faulkner, he can unravel fabrics of suspicion, deceit, envy, love and hatred without getting the strands into a seemingly unmanageable snarl. His fine hunting scenes create a nostalgia for a vanishing side of U.S. life, and the crash of Theron Hunnicutt's ideals marks the passing of a Southern code of conduct. A book that a bit too plainly shows...