Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which young gentlemen did not smoke. Egyptian Deities, which cost 25 cents for 10, were fashionable; but, owing to a rumor that Shevlin, the Yale football captain, collected a royalty on every package we boycotted them." Acceptable smokes of the day were Turkish Delight, Egyptian Prettiest, Pharaoh's Daughter (Sweet Caporal still survives...
...bride-to-be is even born. The baby girl gets her engagement ring in her first bath. Disturbed enough by prepuberty engagements, the delegates were shocked at the Guinea custom. "Alas, we cannot change," said one, "until the African man realizes that a woman is not just the daughter of her father, to be disposed of as he likes, or the property of her husband, to be treated as he pleases...
...working hand in glove, the boy is soon dolled up in pale blue breeches, reading from the Beatitudes and gazing blankly at a wide-eyed bit of fluff (Broadway's Carol Lynley) from across the road. Fess himself makes sheep's eyes at the preacher's daughter (Joanne...
...potbellied Frenchman, no longer young, who seems to live with his aging parents. That is about all the reader ever finds out about him. Most of his time seems to be spent in checking up on the activities of an old maid and her father. Both father and daughter were born under the sign of French avarice. The girl whines and begs for money, the father accuses her of hoarding what he gives her. One night he dashes barefoot and in his nightgown into the kitchen, climbs a chair and looks at the bar of soap on a high shelf...
Like a compulsive private eye, the hero avidly watches over the years as father and daughter become almost subhuman in their batterings at each other's dignity and sense of decency. What drives him is a need to break through the outer shells of people and look through to the frightening inner swamps of fear and desperation. What he finds in himself is a weak schizophrenic who sees the world and normal people masked against him. Spying on his own inner self, or on the girl and her father, becomes more important to him than anything that can happen...