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...Night's Dream, Lynn jumped at the chance to play it. In 1963, Olivier took her on at the National Theater, and she found that she could play for pathos (Brecht's Mother Courage) as well as waddle through twaddle (Coward's Hay Fever). Big things were expected of her???but not quite the sort of big things that actually happened...
...Lane smugly explaining some choice portions of his latest A paper. Gradually it becomes clear what is troubling Franny; she suffers, like Holden Caulfield, from an intense weariness of all that is phony, from an oversensitivity to the world. She is sick of all the egos madly dancing around her???at school, in her summer theater, at the luncheon table at which Lane Coutell is dissecting Flaubert along with his frogs' legs. To escape, Franny has seized on a religious classic called The Way of a Pilgrim, in which an anonymous Russian peasant tells how he roamed the land first...
...mother. He grows older, spends vacations in the country town of Combray, the seaside at Balbec, falls in love with little Gilberte Swann. The story of M. Swann's hopeless love affair with Odette is introduced. Later the narrator takes up with Albertine, is desperately unhappy with her???among other reasons, because he suspects her of Lesbian tendencies. She runs away from him and is killed in an accident. During the War the narrator takes refuge in a sanitarium, emerges to find his social world tottering, aged, ready for death. As U. S. Proustian Edmund Wilson epitomizes, "in the long...
...collar factory of a rich uncle. He seduces a factory girl, Roberta Alden, and attempts to desert her when he is attracted by Sondra Finchley, richer and correspondingly more interesting. When Roberta Alden tells Clyde Griffiths that she is going to have a baby, he is provoked to kill her???by taking her on a picnic, tipping over their rowboat, swimming to shore while she drowns...
...their worth. The performance of the Los Angeles so exceeded his expectations that he enthusiastically radioed the Navy Department in Washington that the necessity for continued development of lighter-than-aircraft had been conclusively proved. He contended that the "spot" the dirigible had made was important enough to justify her??? and his?sacrifice...