Word: brooding
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...father or from his staunch Roman Catholicism. "Perhaps the reason we did not rebel," thinks Buckley, "is that Father was a dissenter all his life. Had he been an establishmentarian, there might have been a greater impulse to rebel." In the influence that he exercised over his brood, until his death in 1958 at 77, Buckley Sr. bore considerable resemblance to that other patriarch of Irish descent, Joseph P. Kennedy. But beyond the Irishness, the Buckleys do not own up to any similarities. "My greatest accomplishment is not having one single child who has been a failure," says Aloise Buckley...
Died. Carson McCullers, 50, vibrant voice of love and loneliness in the Southern novel; of a stroke, following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until...
...effect of a sequence of stunning stills that build and sustain the mood. The children, though, are Clayton's triumph. Each of them is such an accomplished scene stealer that it is hard to tell whether the director deserves more credit for evoking acting ability in his brood or for keeping it under control...
...Sure, I love the freedom to work 18 hours a day," says Marvin Kitman, who has written some 125 humorous articles for assorted magazines. "And to brood on the one day off I take each month." Ken Purdy, who turns out 25 pieces a year, both fiction and nonfiction, says, "It's great not to be responsible to anyone, but then there are those mornings when you wake up at 3 a.m. and know you've had the last idea of your life." "You don't belong to anyone, and you can ski when you please," says...
After Genevieve. In spite of all this, the 53-year-old Adler has begun to brood that "what I know is likely to die with me." He has started the tricky task of giving formal lessons on a technique that he himself worked out by instinct; meantime, he is turning increasingly to an activity that offers a better chance of enduring fame-composing. Although in his earlier career he boasted that he could neither read nor write music, he eventually learned, and even studied composition with Ernst Toch for a year. In 1953, he got the chance...