Word: plot
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...result of the unresolved social problems that have plagued Spain for many centuries. The pueblo of Spain was trying to break with the parasitic and feudal control exercized by the church, the military caudillos and the landowning bourgeoisie. Since the Republic represented a threat to their existence, the plot for the destruction of Spanish democracy was hatched in April of 1931. Franco had joined the right-wing monarchist plot against the Republic as far back as the summer...
Would it be within the realm of the Crimson's power to revive the Third Page section of Thursday? In the past, I looked forward to the incisive, intelligent and informative reviews of Paul K. Rowe. Now, however, only dull plot summaries appear, with no commentary on whether or not something is worth seeing. As a frugal graduate student, I only buy the Crimson on Thursdays, precisely for its entertainment guide. I regret to say that I will find it necessary to deprive the Crimson of even that small income, if the reviews do not improve, dramatically. Let's bring...
Lewis's treatment of Wharton's individual books is similarly annoying. Though he is adept at tracing the thematic continuity of her work, Lewis engages in only the most cursory literary criticism, offering plot summaries more often than analyses of her novels' style or structure. At the same time, he painstakingly sets down the exact proceeds from each of her published works...
...plot of The Government Inspector is deceptively simple. The mayor of a small Russian town-his name, Anton Antonovich Skuoznik Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency-has received a letter indicating that the equivalent of an IRS investigator has been dispatched from the capital to examine the town's fiscal books. Since the mayor (George S. Irving) and his cronies are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably distressed...
...more exciting than Allen Drury's book. Drury, now a rightist so outre that he must dredge the outer reaches of the solar system for solutions to America's political problems, was at his best in his first novel, probably the best Washington novel of all time. The plot concerns the attempt of a dying President to put a supporter of his foreign policy into office as Secretary of State, and the moral issues that confront Senators when it turns out this otherwise wise and honorable man has lied about membership in the Communist party. The issues are cast...