Word: greenmont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them up in a novel. So Newsman Allen Drury wrote Advise and Consent. Of course there was a sequel-A Shade of Difference-but now the troubles have started for Novelist Drury; he has begun to write about ordinary people. They are the nice upper-middle-class inhabitants of Greenmont, Calif., a summer colony 6,000 feet up in the Sierras. Greenmont is slightly more exclusive than the U.S. Senate; residential memberships are restricted to 75. It is also much duller. The blurred argle-bargle of private thoughts is so much less interesting than even the most preposterous oratory; Drury...
...intrusion of a U.S. Army major with vague psychological problems stirs the inhabitants of Greenmont from their smug torpor into some kind of malice. The major's crime is that he has seduced (or has been seduced by) a thirtyish spinster of the Greenmont tribe. Before the major can be pecked to death by ducks, he is mercifully immolated in a forest fire...
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