Word: burnished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...style, then, makes A World of Love an above average work. As her opening description of the countryside around the Irish castle, she writes: "The sun rose on a landscape still pale with the heat of the day before. There was no haze, but a sort of coppery burnish out of the air lit on flowing fields, rocks, the face of one house, and the cliff of limestone overhanging the river. The river gorge cut deep through the uplands. This light at this hour, so unfamiliar, brought into being a new world--painted expectant, empty, intense. This month was June...
...into the ribs of a Ford and barreling out to surprise his friends on the highway. Among the well-heeled, there is a boom in sports cars; among the nostalgic, the urge to find a "classic," or "antique," such as a vintage Mercer, Marmon or Stutz, and fret and burnish it to an immaculate, working shine...
Explains Australian Author George Johnston, who wrote High Valley in collaboration with his wife: "I was the journalist who supplied the substance. She was the artist who supplied the burnish." Journalist Johnston's substance is the old story of the penniless youth who falls in love with the headman's daughter ("She has the eyes of a gazelle, he thought"), only to find that his suit is hopeless be cause she has been betrothed since child hood. To make matters worse, a tithe-collecting lama visits the valley and de mands a night with gazelle-eyed Veshti...
...burnish that Co-Author Charmian Clift brings to her husband's moral tale was good enough, despite a tendency to purple prose, to help win High Valley the ?2,000 first prize in an Australian novel contest in 1948. The book will also gen erally please readers who like Oriental stories to have Oriental endings. Those who prefer Southern California endings should be warned that High Valley is not James Hilton's Shangri...