Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When Liggett rhapsodizes at the end of the movie that Gloria may have been bad on the outside but that "inside, her every fibre was striving for respectability," the only thing any self-respecting movie-goer can do is walk out. But this gesture, if the viewer has waited this long, is about two hours too late to do any good...
...into the middle depths, "I realized that until then I had not known him at all. It was not a discovery to cause me dismay. What did he know about me? What, really, can any of us know about any of us, and why must we make such a thing of loneliness when it is the final condition...
...novelist and storyteller, the late Joyce Gary knew the neatest trick of all: from first to last, be sure to talk about people. He looked at them with love, which is bound to make a modern writer a little unfashionable, but the main thing is that he looked at them, sensing that each one was different from all the others...
...ironies of middle age hold no mysteries for him, either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim tries to do what seems to him the intelli gent thing, Gary's knowledge of people is used to truss him up like a sacrifice...
...thing, however, is relatively certain: the seminars will never count for credit, mainly because they are not organized by the departments...