Word: hester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HESTER LILLY AND TWELVE SHORT STORIES, by Elizabeth Taylor (210 pp.; Viking; $3). In this collection-a novelette and a dozen short stories-British Novelist Elizabeth Taylor (A Wreath of Roses, The Sleeping Beauty) takes stock characters, and with hairline precision asserts a small but significant dissent from the stock notions of them. She disconcerts the common sentimental concept of blindness with the story of a rough, tough old horse dealer gone blind, who finds himself isolated and bewildered in a "home," where the matron refuses to read him the racing news. In the predictable tensions of the novelette...
Today, Larry Adler is a paid-up member of the Los Angeles local, and widely recognized as a harmonica virtuoso. But he has had his political troubles, stemming from his famous libel suit against Hester McCullough, who tried to have him barred from a Greenwich, Conn, concert hall because she said he was associated with too many Red-front organizations. The case ended in a hung jury, but ever since then, Adler has had difficulty getting engagements in the U.S. He went to live in London with his English wife and three children (who are U.S. citizens). The British love...
...HAZEL E. HESTER Atlanta...
Since all the characters, including Hester, are extremely reticent about explaining themselves, there rises around The Marmot Drive an atmosphere of smoky symbolism. Though the book is smoothly written, its characters never quite develop enough force to blow the smoke away...
...Hester never speaks up to defend him. In an impromptu "court," Matthew is judged guilty, then taken to the village green, tied to an old whipping post and lashed...