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...young protagonist of Sheed's feverish short novel, the equivalent of Dickens' blacking factory is a backwater English secondary school called Sopworth College. Jimmy Bannister, 15 and feckless, is suddenly uprooted from his American adolescence and packed off to Sopworth. Both menacing and seedy, Sopworth gives him an advanced course in the three Bs: boredom, bullying and befuddlement...
Death-Dealing Vision. Charley Trimble, the teen-age protagonist of the long story Pennsylvania Gothic, knows all too well what he is, if not who. He is a potential suicide. After all, his father killed himself. He was obsessed by the "spoliation of nature"-human and mineral-in the once aristocratic Philadelphia suburb where the family lives. Charley, idle and lonely, powerfully infected by his father's preoccupation with decay, conceives a death wish of his own. A neighbor woman, an ancient relic of the town's past, wages a moral and psychological battle to exorcize it, finally...
...Deal. Within hours, Bethlehem and smaller competitors stepped into line with selected price adjustments of their own. Rumors flew among metalmen that U.S. Steel's Blough, who had been John Kennedy's chief protagonist in the stormy steel rollback of 1962, had personally concluded that industry's peace with the President. Blough did, in fact, come in for earnest entreaties from Defense Secretary Clark Clifford about steel and the national interest, but the Administration denies that any deal was struck...
Readers wary of the plush language of the "gadzooks, hussy!" school may be suspicious of the special idiom of Bring Larks. But there is no Errol Flimflam here. Keneally has devised a garbled-Gaelic speech that seems perfectly to fit the character of his protagonist who, like another gifted innocent, Billy Budd, speaks with the tongue of men and angels. In fact the doomed man's only legacy is verses, hidden in a government ledger and negligently destroyed by a bored governor who could make nothing of them. One poem hopes that out of the cesspool, time will "bring...
Much of Hitchcock's art relies on point-of-view, the director showing action as seen by the protagonist. When the audience and the characters share a single eye, audiences naturally begin to identify with the person through whose eyes they see; Hitchcock often undermines our complacency by forcing us to identify with a peeping tom (Rear Window) or murderer (Psycho). Halfway into The Bride Wore Black, the camera begins to follow a young mother and her son walking home from school; although we do not see Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) following them, the boy's glances directly into...