Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Then Irene's maid leaves. Author de Céspedes is so skilled that she can make this trite crisis the means of her restless heroine's selfdiscovery. The maid, Erminia, is a simple village girl who likes her mistress but finds her life confusing. She leaves to...
Consistent but Shallow. With his usual sharp and overly detailed sense of time, place, speech and custom, O'Hara sets the scene. The events are dramatic enough-the murder itself, a near lynching, and several seductions (not nearly as many, though, as in recent O'Hara novels). But...
Understanding but Awkward. The trouble may be that Novelist O'Hara has hedged his commitment to interior dialogue. He strains Millhouser's musings through a narrator, a young man who begins to talk with the murderer out of curiosity and continues the conversations because he hopes to write...
He baptizes his idiot cousin all right, but he deliberately drowns him in the process. Through the murder, Tarwater thinks that he has exorcised his great-uncle's injunction to preach and baptize. But back home the boy discovers that a Negro neighbor has rescued his uncle's...
A Journey to the Center of the Earth, based on Jules Verne's novel, follows James Mason as he descends into an extinct volcano in Iceland, spends almost a year underground with such companions as Plucky Youth Pat Boone and Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, is coughed back up through...