Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first lieutenant. Haunted by the glacial respectability of his New England future after the war, he wants to have an adulterous fling while he can. But his low-level imaginings rarely embrace anything more than a brief, businesslike interlude with a party girl. Instead he meets Val, the grave-eyed brunette daughter of an invalided British brigadier, fully Jane's social opposite number and twice as good-looking. They fall immediately and desperately in love, and exchange guilty confidences about his wife and her friend Wynter, a commando officer in North Africa. But despite prolonged emotional twitching and teasing...
...last week the Moonsammy girls asked their father for permission to visit a married brother who lives only a few miles away. The answer, inevitable and as uncontestable as the grave, was no. The girls went to their beds. Eight hours later, when their mother looked in on the room which they shared together, all five were gone. Calling on his neighbors for help, Father Moonsammy frantically searched the darkness for the missing girls. At dawn he found them. Silhouetted by the eerie morning light, their five young bodies hung lifeless from branches of two wild fig trees just...
...Resolved that "intolerant churches and systems of religious organization can be as grave a menace to liberty as governments...
...HIDDEN GRAVE, by Peter Hardin (217 pp.; Harper: $2.75), is the story of Gideon, a fortyish, "handsome granite man, huge, subtly balanced." He has cold grey eyes and cropped grey curls. Men bristle with an atavistic hate in his presence, but women lust after him. Why has Gideon come back to a place he has avoided for 20 years? What is the fascinating secret of Helen, now one of the town's leading citizens, who once loved him unreservedly? Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully...
Riches inFaith. Theologians laugh at Grave's notions, and archaeologists and anthropologists denounce his methods of research and his reasoning processes. Literary men stuff their fingers in their ears when Graves starts harping on his goddess. But nearly all would agree that the world would be demonstrably poorer in poetry if Robert Graves had lost faith in his goddess. Without her as Muse, he would never have written poems which rank with the greatest of the century...