Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What could not be denied was that Stonehouse had become entangled in a complex web of financial ventures. The son of a port office maintenance engineer, Stonehouse did a stint as an R.A.F. pilot during World War II, then studied political science at the University of London. Handsome and energetic, he was briefly a rising star in the Labor Party, winning his first seat in the House of Commons in 1957. In 1964, during Wilson's first term as Prime Minister, he served as Aviation Minister and later as Postmaster General. He was not offered a post...
Since he came to power, the Shah has run his nation as a virtual police state. Iran's 70,000-member secret police force keeps tight control on political action and even thoughts; its web is wide enough to include at least one agent in every university classroom...
...failures of More Stately Mansions are brought to light by comparison with another O'Neill play that examines family interrelationships--A Long Day's Journey Into Night. In that play the characters are just as complex, but their relationships are consistent and well-defined. And the web O'Neill weaves there is far more delicate than in More Stately Mansions, where virtually every nuance is exposed in tedious dialogue. Most important, we know and understand the Tyrones much better, and therefore sympathize with the problems that beset their family...
...lacks the naivete that allows Vonnegut to laugh. Heller's somber style reflects the cautious narrator's inhibitions. Their eventual breakdown only after it has become too late remains in Slocum's eyes a sign of weakness. In the same way, the novel's structure evolves into a complex web out of an increasing sense of urgency. Slocum's failure to reach his children comes, he feels, not from his own virtual breakdown but from the breakdown in American values. Children, he feels, have a right to be pessimistic, and there can be no more morals, just time. So parents...
...directions, new pressures, new voices: it all made for a healthy web of creative tension...