Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alec Guinness' bigamous seafarer in the movie The Captain's Paradise, made it simple, even obligatory, for him to be absent from each of his homes for stated periods. He was careful to spend Christmas and New Year's Day alternately at either home. To avoid any embarrassing slips of the tongue, William had even arranged as far as possible to give the children in each of his families the same names...
Last January, with some manuscript advice from Newsman Barker, Morey Bernstein, 36, a Pueblo businessman who sells farm and mining equipment, told the story again in his book (TIME, Feb. 20). Bernstein, an amateur hypnotist, had put Housewife Tighe, who uses the name Ruth Simmons to avoid publicity, into a trance in which she conjured up an earlier incarnation as Bridey, a redheaded lass born in Cork. What made the story chillingly persuasive was the mass of circumstantial detail about people, places and customs that Mrs. Tighe recounted in a brogue and in words that seemed utterly foreign...
...priests who have mislaid their sense of vocation in the hubbub of parish politics, bingo socials and Legion of Decency campaigns. Illinois-born and Catholic-reared. Author Powers brings an unsparing eye and a spare style to the subject of priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion to avoid mere anticlericalism. He shares the front rank of present-day U.S. short story writing with such writers as John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, and he surprisingly evokes the same sad dilemma that plagues Cheever's disenchanted Upper East Side Manhattanites and Salinger's poor little rich boys...
Demolishing a Window. Comic or sober, Author Powers cannot avoid that slight tinge of spiritual arrogance that is implicit in judging one's co-religionists-Catholic, Protestant or Jew-rather more severely than others, because they have ostensibly had a greater light while the rest of the world presumably flounders around any which way. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before...
...same year the Hasty Pudding Dramatic Association was formed, so that the producers could squeeze out enough capital for another road trip. This inno vation was described by Roger S. Hewlett '33 as "really only a character on paper to legitimize the theatricals and to avoid the government taxes." "1776", the next year's show, evidently profited from the merger as it embarked on one of the most ambitious Pudding tours ever. It played to audiences in Boston, Northampton, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Detroit...