Word: wolfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light. We're in a city, he thought. Us, the walls, the bear, the streets. Our poorly schooled soul looking through the drapes is encased in a cadaverous face. The eyes of the face have no significance save their cheerful twinkle, winkle one night. Out smile is friendly and wolfish. Our teeth nash concepts. The eaten letters are sparkling bits of dirty ice. We don't feel so all alone. Our's is simply the change of space. The place is the same. He saw himself across the street and waved suddenly, remembering that he was not alone. He waved...
...last straw is the cast. Bibi Anderson (the sister) and Per Oscarsson (the brother) tease you for 50-odd minutes. She's so beautiful, he's so wolfish, you expect that the wages of sin will be excitement. But Sjoman doesn't keep them on screen long enough to produce a stir. At the end he removes them completely in favor of a screaming baby. Leave early...
...recovering from a cancer operation. He went to Switzerland, all right-then kept going east. At Peking Airport, he renounced his "guilty past," urged his colleagues on Formosa to "return to the embrace of the mother land" and create a new united front-this time against the "wolfish ambition...
...Twisted. Kesey has given himself space for some funny, sharply drawn minor characters and some fine logging scenes. But there is too much of the tedious Lee, too many thrown-in anecdotes. The book suffers from a Thomas Wolfish effort to be as big and brawling as the country it describes. The attempt blurs Kesey's view of his real theme-the weakness of the strong and the persistent tensility of the weak...
...virtuous world, rejects the sympathy of the few kind and decent people he encounters because it is rage itself, he comes to understand, that keeps him alive. "I defend myself against them," he thinks in a rare moment of self-understanding, "with all the fury accumulated in years of wolfish life." Eventually he gives in and accepts society, because he realizes that, bad as it is, it is redeemed by individual acts of humanity...