"The Story of the Lost Child" picks up these themes, as Elena and Lila, the girlhood friends and rivals whose relationship spans and forms the backbone of the Neapolitan novels, enter the middle terrain of marriage and motherhood.
Confronting these two polar versions of Agamemnon, a reader may search out a middle terrain, like that presented by Robert Lowell, whose respectful streamlining of Lattimore appeared in 1978.
The Middle Eastern terrain coupled with my father's presence made the whole situation surreal.
For when you roll down the high slopes to the middle hill terrain, you find one of Abruzzo's greatest gems: pasta.
Peter Balakian: I have a range of vegetables in this sequence that include some things that are really I find located in an Armenian-Middle Eastern terrain, like quince and apricot—I mean, apricot's universal but it's Armenia's national fruit.
The set, by James Youmans, is of the classically tasteful stripe that defines Mr. Gurney's quintessentially white-bread upper-middle-class terrain, and Peggy has redirected all the seating to face a blank wall, which, on the stage, translates into pointing out at the audience.
To have any hope of defending his slender majority in Ipswich in May, however, this is the sort of hard-up, middle-class terrain Mr Gummer must win and a chill afternoon's canvassing provides no promise of that.In a soft Suffolk burr, most people say they have not decided how they'll vote; almost none shows enthusiasm for the Tory-led coalition government and its toff leader, David Cameron.
Chait attacks the tax-cutters' agenda from a sensible middle ground — the terrain he laments has been largely lost in American politics and completely abandoned by the Republican Party.
If this strikes some as Simmons veering perilously close to sentimental middle-aged-sportswriter terrain — picture Mitch Albom — well, Simmons is now a middle-aged sportswriter.
The book's middle ground covers such terrain as the police mentality his best essay community planning, the relationship of the artist's mor ality and ideology to his work, and the condition of poetry in America.
But as always, he restaked his claim to the middle ground, the political terrain where he built his political victories as he led his party back to power after 12 years of Republican control of the White House.
