Word: hackettston
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Helen Walsh was pretty, sensitive and warmhearted, and her sister Lydia, seven years older, was watchful, forthright and kind. Hackettston, Conn., where they lived with 9,174 other people much like themselves, was a quiet, ordinary, clean and well-kept town. George Peterson, who married Helen, was a solid businessman who flushed uncomfortably when he admitted his philosophy of life: "It's worth something just to hear the machines going till 5 o'clock again...
They were better people than they knew they were. Hackettston was a better place than its citizens understood. They did not know that their lives were exciting...
...like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom. She also stamps out any intimation that her characters are important people whose lives, even if they do not value them themselves, are of human significance. Readers may also feel that in emphasizing the faded Main Street malice of parts of Hackettston, Mrs. Janeway is buying some of the Brazilian bonds of contemporary fiction...
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