Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith, it turned out, is a worrier. One day he started worrying about the look of the school that his nine-year-old daughter attends. "I was driving by the school with my wife," he explained, "and I said I was going to paint that school. I meant I'd bid on it some time. But it kept coming back to my mind. It said, Taint it,' and I answered, Taint it?' 'Yes,' it said. Taint it for nothing.' And I said, 'Oh, no, not for nothing.' I was talking to myself...
...said I was worrying, and I knew then I had to get that school off my mind." Smith talked his brother-in-law into helping him and swore his daughter to secrecy. "I never painted a school before. There were 241 openings I had to paint. I had to paint things the same color as they were, because I was afraid to change things. I figured when they found out I was doing it for nothing, I'd end up in jail." Smith's job saved the city more than $1,000, and for the time being...
...affair between father (David Niven) and daughter (Jean Seberg), which takes place mostly on the French Riviera, is not physical. Incest, as this story sees it, is emotional infantilism-the fear of life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
Although Sergel adapts and cuts the book freely, he has not come up with much unity or much of a plot: George is encouraged to leave home by his mother and restrained by his father and by his love for a rather unappealing banker's daughter,and then, ironically,by the illness of his mother. When she finally dies, he is free to leave...
...broke down for the last time, and with breakdown came a "cerebral effusion." As all London's great hostesses and VIPs were "out of town" for Christmas, it was "a vast assemblage of writers and painters" that escorted the Great Swell to his chosen grave beside his infant daughter. The glowing obituaries ranked him with the literary Olympians, but his friends recalled that he had never cared for that company. "If Goethe is a god," Thackeray once said. "I'm sure I'd rather go to the other place...