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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maria Dermout is a little old (71) Dutch lady who remembers the life she led in Java before the European was seriously challenged, a time long ago when all daddies were rich and most mammas were good-looking. When Author Dermout's first book. The Ten Thousand Things, showed...
Yet, as in The Ten Thousand Things, it is not the facts of life that matter so much in Yesterday as the fact of life. Author Dermout can tell much of what needs to be told about Javanese servants by catching them in moments of tenderness or bitterness when their...
At Parmelee Cove, the elegant estate still ruled by Reese's dotty grandmother, everyone knows the forms by heart. Schools, colleges, clothes, jobs and "marriage partners" all fit an ingrained pattern, and most of the Parmelee grandchildren, clustered with their families around the central money pile, like the arrangement...
Author Myrivilis allows for more sentimentality than most; yet it does not cloy. The reason is quite simple: that is how things are. Smaragthi remains consistent to the end, unmarried, herself a sort of mermaid Madonna who rolls naked in the sea like a porpoise but shrinks with revulsion from...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of Old Man, William Faulkner's story of a convict and a pregnant woman tossed together by a Mississippi River flood. One of Director John Frankenheimer's finest All times E.D.T. achievements. With Sterling Hayden and Geraldine Page.