Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Hollywood develops a habit, nor life, nor death, nor things present, nor things to come . . . nor any other creature shall be able to separate it from the love of making that one sort of picture. The latest fad is drama filmed in the throbbing heart of India, replete with blood-thirsty native revolutionaries and Oxford accented imperialists. "Gunga Din," which begins its regular run at Keith's today, is the most recent piece de resistance...
...tried to remember the doctor's instructions but they all rattled around in his head with a great racket and he could only think that it was too late. She died at 12:15. Vag knew it was murder, but it is a secret he keeps locked in his heart...
Ironic comedy as well as tragedy, The Death of the Heart tells a story as old as wickedness: the world's betrayal of innocence. But Elizabeth Bowen also introduces a provocative interaction: the world's discomfiture at the hands of the innocent. One paragraph condenses the pattern of the simple theme...
...Death of the Heart describes such a meeting. Heroine is Portia Quayne, a product of a lonely, itinerant girlhood with her mother in second-rate European hotels. Orphaned at 16, she goes to live with her halfbrother, a successful London ad man. His wife, a sophisticated dilettante, grudgingly tolerates Portia at the beginning, detests her after she finds and reads Portia's diary, whose wide-eyed observations on her guardians read like satire...
...novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent most of her time on stairways talking to the servants. When an inter-room telephone system was installed, the novel went swimmingly. Working seven hours at a stretch, she typed about 1,000 words...