Word: embeddedness
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This is doubly unfortunate because Geismar has an opportunity to make legitimate critical re-evaluations. James has been misunderstood in the past, to a degree; parts of his work have been overrated though not, as Geismar claims, by F.O. Matthiessen or Edmund Wilson). The American Scene is a good example...
Winnie is denied all ambulation, for in Act I she is embedded up to her bosom in a mound. She has in front of her only a parasol and a crowded shopping bag to supplement her own thoughts as time passes. She entertains herself (and us) with this bag of...
In Act II, she is denied even the resource of gesture, for now she is embedded up to her neck, and can move only her eyes and lips. We can guess that the unwritten third act would find her completely buried.
Like the overturning of a deeply embedded rock, the Profumo scandal caused a frantic scurrying of a great many odd human insects. One of the crawliest figures to emerge was that of Peter Rachman, who may, or may not, be dead. Last week press and Parliament were abuzz with his...
Urban has developed a surgical technique that goes farther than the conventional radical mastectomy. Since a set of lymph nodes lying near the sternum (breastbone) also acts as a reservoir for cancer cells, he removes, in appropriate cases, a thick section of chest in which these internal lymph nodes are...