Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Infighting. A dark-haired daughter of a Marseille family, Mile. Charles-Roux, 44, was raised in Italy, where her father was French Ambassador to the Vatican. Like the long-forgotten works of other postwar mandarins, her novel berates the crass profit motive in the U.S., speaks of "the grip of money on each face." One episode tells of "Babs," a leggy New York career girl and Fair staffer who marries an Italian-American political boss and goes with him to Sicily, where women have a considerably different role from the one she is accustomed to. The narrator is Gianna, another...
...points at close range, he is also an accurate outside shooter, leads all N.B.A. players with a record of 88% at the free-throw line. (Chamberlain, by contrast, has hit on only 38%.) Rick perfected his long-range shooting in off-season practice sessions with his wife Pamela, the daughter of Miami Coach Bruce Hale. "We played a game against each other," he says. "I would only shoot from 20 or 25 ft. out, and Pam would take shots from closer to the basket. She beat me a few times-but that's not so strange. We both...
...mother-in-law's exit, the distraught son-in-law appears and explains that the old lady is mad. Her daughter died four years before, and the woman kept in the apartment is his second wife. He acts as he does to preserve the mother-in-law's illusion. No sooner has he left the room than the mother-in-law reappears to argue that her son-in-law is the mad one. Her daughter had been placed in an asylum, and when she returned, cured, the son-in-law would not acknowledge her as his wife...
Baffled by the equal credibility of both witnesses, the investigators demand to see the wife. She appears in a heavy black veil, announces that she is the mother-in-law's daughter and the son-in-law's second wife. "For myself," she says, "I am she whom you believe me to be." In one of the many meanings he intends, Pirandello says that truth is in the eye of the beholder...
...other people? Who they are, what they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it?" The busybodies of the world who try to lift that veil find no truth, but they do uncover the pain at the heart of existence. If the motherin-law's daughter died, or if the son-in-law's wife was taken to an asylum, it may, in either instance, have been a reality too terrible to face. Pirandello agrees with O'Neill that man must have illusions to make life bearable...