Word: villainizing
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...ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames him to his employer...
...articles, mostly respectful, have been written about the book and it has been the subject of scores of sermons. Read with European eyes, it is not hard to see why: 1) its painful, powerful picture of concentration-camp barbarism records a horror intimately known to millions; 2) its villain is, conveniently, neither Fascism nor Communism but a machine age which has dried up love and compassion, and 3) the U.S. is presented as a rich, prodigal but heartless partner of the totalitarian in the diabolical job of crushing the individual...
Choice in Despair. Despite its European popularity, The Twenty-Fifth Hour is no literary masterpiece. Its plot is heavily propped with coincidence, the characters are undeveloped and its message is spelled out with "petitions" that bring the story to repeated full stops. Gheorghiu's villain, machine-age power, is neither an original nor a persuasive one. What gives the book its impact is its assembly of evidence of man's inhumanity to man, by no means peculiar to the machine...
Love & death, the hero and the villain of biology, have also been starred in a lot of badly overwritten fiction. In a new first novel, The Trouble of One House, the old antagonists are presented with exact good taste. In Novelist Breudan Gill, moreover, readers are presented with a fine new ironist...
...visits Vosnia to pick up a medal for a new operating technique and to demonstrate the surgery. He discovers in mid-operation that, through a switch in patients, he is working on the innards of General Niva, the country's dictator. The operation goes well. Later, over billiards, Villain Hawkins explains just why the general's survival-or at least the illusion of it-is politically urgent at the moment. If the dictator dies, the surgeon's knowledge of the fact would make his liquidation imperative...