Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TOWN HALL TONIGHT, by Harlowe Randall Hoyt (292 pp.; Prentice-Hall; $7.50), is a somewhat casual and bluntly nostalgic backward look at the small-town theater of the '80s and '905, when Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Old Homestead were sure to extract their quota of tears. The illustrations are of appropriate corniness...
...beaches and in the barrooms of the South Pacific, endless speculations continue but no man has yet offered a convincing explanation of why Dusty Miller and the 24 souls he carried aboard the twin-screw cabin cruiser Joyita two months ago should have disappeared without trace...
...fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner of abomination and injustice on it; the bad will be punished and the good rewarded, for God is not sleeping, the judgment is not far off ... Bitterness is here neither dead nor sleeping . . . and this is not, as Cabin in the Sky would have us believe, merely a childlike emotional release...
...shower of splintered glass panes. Next, Lettitia sent her husband crashing to his death from a rotten balcony. Before she herself died (of a migraine), Lettitia 1) dispatched a slave in a quicksand bog, and 2) ordered her personal maid's young daughter into the "stud cabin" in the plantation's slave quarters, where the child died of a brutal raping. Lettitia's penance seems mild in comparison to some others. True, she is occasionally heard screaming in the night, but more often the fire-gutted shell of nearby Rosewell plantation is the scene of ghostly revelries...
...Absolve. Back in the cabin, Padre Carlos Gonzalez Salas, 34, of Tampico, Mexico, a tall, athletic-looking priest with the skin of an Indian, was chatting with his seat mate and looking out of the window. Gradually he began to realize that something was wrong. When a crew member explained the situation to the passengers, Padre Gonzalez Salas clutched his scapular and said a prayer. "I began," he said later, "to experience a great feeling of anxiety...