Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sitting in bed in a prim peignoir, surrounded by her beaming kin. The photos, taken four years ago after the birth of Prince Edward, were of Queen Elizabeth II. When they appeared in France in Paris-Match, the royal household was scandalized. The Queen asked the British press to refrain from printing the "personal" snapshots, but the London Daily Express took advantage of its reciprocal arrangement with Paris-Match and printed them anyway. With that, the rival London Daily Mirror threatened to publish "a purloined snapshot taken by Prince Philip of Prince Charles sitting on his potty...
Most plots offer the writer a chance to show what he can do; bizarre or grotesque plots are more often a test of what he can refrain from doing. Here, for example, is a novel about three characters. Warren, Arthur and Junie, who set up platonic housekeeping together, squabble amiably, seek work, vacation at the seashore and, in various ways, find love. Presumably, such a book would have to be filled with novelistic bravado to lift it above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack...
...indeed had to be bled. But Orgon is interested only in hearing about Tartuffe, the religious man he has gathered into his home. There is a wonderful, almost song-like exchange between the two as Dorine tells of her mistress' suffering, and Orgon answers over and over with the refrain "What about Tartuffe?" And as Dorine describes his glutonous feasting, Orgon answers with "Poor fellow...
...quickly followed by a new refrain. "We's so sick and tired of you damn nigger-lovers." The two in the back row kept that up, while the two in the front had another line. "Why donctha just get outa here and leave us alone. Why dontcha go away. Cause we're a fixin' to kill us a nigger-lover...
...here." Just one line was missing from the ritual, and it came in a minute. "We're gettin' just about ready to kill us one of you nigger lovers. You think we should kill you?" No thank you. Two of them who were holding my arms took up the refrain. "We're gonna kill one of you guys. We're gonna kill...