Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Criticizing modern writers who underestimate the importance of plot, Bentley pointed to "a decay of narrative sense" among critics and scholars...
...France last week men talked darkly about The Plot. Conservative Le Figaro described it as an attempt to paralyze "the action of the Chief of State in order to set up an 'activist' government by means of extreme right-wing groups." Leftist France Observateur talked of the "rapidly deteriorating" political situation and the "increasing impotence" of the regime, saw the day approaching when "the army can intervene as an arbiter to prevent 'civil war' " between right and left. The most dangerous plot is that which is prepared in the open...
...plot remains pretty much the same; both versions are based on the novel by the late John Buchan. The hero (Kenneth More), while strolling in Kensington Gardens, sees a nanny struck down by a hit-and-run driver and pursues her runaway pram. Instead of a baby he finds a gun inside. Next day the nanny, recovered from the accident, visits the hero's flat and announces herself as a British agent who has just about got the goods on a big international spy ring. But when the hero leaves the room to arrange a spot of tea, somebody...
Today Walter offers some 45 different styles of shell houses, employs 530 three-to five-man crews of subcontractors, who put up the shell on the home buyer's plot. Walter houses sell for $1,095 to $3,495 depending on size and style, and he keeps costs down by paying his builders a fixed fee per house, supplying everything except lumber for the construction from his own Dixie Building Supplies Inc. Last year Walter cleared an average of $1,000 profit on every house he built, on an average sales price of only $2,500. Even...
Gyrating motion is the substitute for plot or theme in the novels of Jack Kerouac, the beats' most beamish boy. His characters ride a reeling carousel equipped with stolen cars instead of painted tigers, and to the reader they are mostly blurred faces. The trouble is that when the whirling stops, the faces are still blurred and the conversation still pointless-jointless. A happy solution has occurred to Author Kerouac; he has written a volume in which the whirling is continuous and the characters negligible - in other words, a travel book...