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...Cliff, the "nephew" in question, is an ordinary boy who lived with his admiring aunt and uncle and who was killed in the Korean War. His aunt Alma decides to write a memorial for him and, in collecting material from her neighbors, learns that she had known nothing of the boy's desire to leave the provincial town, and of his hatred of the charity she and her brother had given...
Alma accepted the news of Cliff's hatred with a speech filled with soap opera bathos...
...told me the truth, and I believe it, but if you think I don't love Cliff all the more for hearing it, you're mistaken. Because I see how much more he needed the little love anyone could give. He was unhappier than we knew...
Pity is the "weaker side" of the appeal of melodrama, Bentley said; the stronger side is fear. Melodrama plays up irrational fear, which includes superstition, religion, and neurosis, more than "common sense fear--the fear of slipping on the ice or falling off a cliff...
...With Cliff Michel replacing van Gerbig in the Princeton nets, the varsity fashioned three goals in the third period. Norris and Alpine overpowered the weary Tiger defenders at 12:42 and 17:03, and some flashy passing from Dwinell to Dave Grannis to Bob Anderson set up a 45-foot slap shot goal...