Word: cecilia
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...bell in every tooth." In a sense, he outgrew his family, being something more than life-size even then. A teacher-writer named Philip Burton, drama coach and English master at the Port Talbot grammar school, offered him a room in his lodgings. Cecilia and her husband agreed...
...Cecilia Club gave a concert Tuesday night at Carnegie Recital Hall. The 27-voice women's choir was joined by the Yale Alumni Chorus of 19 men in a program of familiar works. The New York Times, April...
...worked days as an insurance investigator, studied nights at Fordham Law ("because my Dad wanted it"), played weekend football for a minor-league pro team that called itself the Brooklyn Eagles. In 1939, he took his first coaching job - as an assistant football coach at tiny (600 students) St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, NJ. His HALFBACK HORNUNG...
...mind changes son enough for Cecilia and her "child-woman's body" begin to interest him. How shall he be bored? Only by "possessing her completely," which in successive weeks comes to mean-in-turn-understanding her, controlling her sexually, paying her as he would a prostitute, trying to shame her, and trying to marry her. But her answers to his endless interrogations prove noncommittal, her sexual contact with him (though pleasant) strangely incomplete. She uses his money to support another lover (Luciani) and confesses the fact freely; and refuses to marry him. Entirely defeated, Dino drives his car into...
...that the writer is as bored as Dino. Moravia's women, whose scheming sensitivity formed the most brilliant stuff of his earlier novels, are here simply diffident, grasping, and apathetic. Dino's mother, whom he might "question . . . for hours and still not come to a conclusion about anything" and Cecilia herself, despite continual references to the depth of her breasts, stay singularly undimensional. Dino alone might save the novel, but Dino is not enough. Although he controls all the gifts of introspection, and perception which properly belong to all Moravian heroes, Moravia has failed to give him anything to perceive...