Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luanne Evans may keep may readers from going on. Old Revenge is all about an old Southern family that has lost just about everything but its Honor, its beautiful women, and its Mammy. I need hardly summarize the plot, since most of you already have guessed that the daughter falls in love with a rich, vigorous man from the North, but loses him when he visits the old plantation, sees the rotting oaks along the driveway, and realizes that he can never compete with the Past...
Erwin Griswald, Dean of the Law School, mfade the presentation to Mrs. Murray F. Hall, Professor Williston's daughter, who accepted the plaque on behalf of her father, the Law School's oldest living graduate...
...evil little eye. This, his ministers agree, is when a fellow needs a fiend. They remind Mephisto that "a woman's chastity is a sty in the Devil's Eye.'' and point out the perfection that has caused his infection-the virgin daughter (Bibi Andersson) of an innocent country parson (Nils Poppe). "Where innocence is greatest.'' Mephisto murmurs wickedly, "evil is nearest...
...Just a Little More, an enormously fat old widower dines with his son and daughter-in-law and reminisces about his life while greedily wolfing down food ("Don't give me any more. I don't mind a couple of slices-well, just another. And some fat. I like a piece of fat. That's what I feel"). Through a long, meandering life, it becomes clear to the reader, food has been the old man's only passion. The Key to My Heart describes a young tradesman's attempt to close out an account with...
Like her accomplished New Zealand predecessors, Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia (Spinster) Ashton-Warner, Janet Frame, 36, writes with a cool eye, a detached sympathy, and a warm but un-sloppy love of sane and insane alike. The daughter of a New Zealand railwayman, Author Frame has herself been in and out of mental hospitals as a voluntary patient. Shy and wary of publicity, she has recently changed her name to Janet Clutha (after a New Zealand river). But, under whatever name, her writing is sensitive, and her evocation of madness unforgettable...