Word: headful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blossoms in the imperial garden opening under the May sun. Even without masks, the dancers' faces are as unwaveringly expressionless as carvings in jade. The body movements are slow, solemn, almost architectural, with the fluctuation of mood sometimes indicated by nothing more than an inclination of the head or the clenching of a fist...
Died. Elliot Ettelson Cohen. 60, editor of the monthly Commentary since its founding in 1945; by suffocation (a plastic bag over his head); in Manhattan. Though he addressed his magazine to a Jewish audience and filled it with Jewish lore and scholarship, Cohen included political and cultural articles of such vitality and penetration that he won a broad, loyal readership...
...large, and largely predictable, cast. There is the weak younger brother who breaks his stern daddy's heart; the high-strung mother who fears a slave insurrection; the "giddy, harum-scarum" little sister; the coldly beautiful woman who spurns the hero and marries money; and inevitably, a willful, head-tossing, foot-stamping Southern belle named Arabella, who insults John Bottom-ley for 443 pages and then, with "the tears tangled in her thick eyelashes." damply confesses that she has loved him all the while. John is stunned...
Gold Braid & Hoop Skirts. Author Basso. 54. is dealing with the same fictional South Carolina town that framed his 1954 bestseller. The View from Pompey's Head, which told of present-day passions in the Tidewater South. The events of this new book are laid a century earlier but. despite the gold braid uniforms and the hoop skirts, the idiom is racily contemporary (says high-born Arabella of a suitor: "All he wanted was a chance to get under my skirts...
...Miscegenation. Though this is a Civil War novel, all the fighting takes place offstage, and the Yankee invaders are vehemently discussed but never seen. As the fortunes of the South decline, John Bottomley whips his jaded horse into a final gallop that gets him back to Pompey's Head for a last big scene in which he accepts a dying Negro as his illegitimate half-uncle and watches the family mansion burn to the ground, consuming Villain Monckton in the process. Penniless, but at last united in wedlock. John and Arabella are prepared to face together the perils...