Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscure Scottish sailor newly arrived in America, Jones did well enough: he successively commanded the sloop Providence, ship Alfred and sloop of war Ranger. But Jones was far from satisfied: infuriated at being placed No. 18 on the captains' seniority list, he flailed out in all directions, made enemies in high places, goaded his men to the point of mutiny...
...young, sees a disastrous love affair founder, and she watches as white and native lives run courses that to her are not so much meaningless as mysterious. Already the Indonesians are rising in the first stages of rebellion: already the whites are grimly aware that force is not forceful enough...
...novel upturns sociology; young Parmelee is sound enough, but his world is maladjusted. He belongs to the moneyed society of Long Island, and the vast shingled mansions have deteriorated sadly since the great days of the 'gos. A good deal of the money is still lying around, but so, unfortunately, is the society. Of the buttoned-down youths who lead lives of quiet self-satisfaction, Reese is scornful: "As Christians they have accepted atheism. As Republicans they have accepted socialism. As snobs they have accepted everybody. Yet they still live by forms...
...Cove, the elegant estate still ruled by Reese's dotty grandmother, everyone knows the forms by heart. Schools, colleges, clothes, jobs and "marriage partners" all fit an ingrained pattern, and most of the Parmelee grandchildren, clustered with their families around the central money pile, like the arrangement well enough. Reese's wife Esther, who grew up knowing the smell but not the taste of money, venerates the forms as if they were sacraments. To be well bred is to be ill bedded, she thinks, and so she is frigid. But when Reese undertakes a Long Island fling with...
...drunken father and a distraught mother are enough to disturb any ten-year...