Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News-Sentinel, Whitehead will produce three columns a week on anything that comes to mind, while continuing to work on his next book. This week his first column began: "A wise man once said that home is where the heart is, and that's what I've decided after years of knocking around this troubled, exciting old world. No one was more surprised than I when the realization finally came that 'home' was back here in these ancient and beautiful hills that seem to bound a little world of their...
JAPANESE EXPORTS of optical products are squeezing Germans out of their market at home as well as overseas. One out of every six microscopes and field glasses sold in Germany now comes from Japan. Japanese optical imports to U.S. last year reached $10.8 million v. $2.5 million from Germany...
...catch his act, but the brute, who later confesses that he loathes all actors, gives him the brush. Meanwhile the hero's girl comes east, gets a job, persuades him to marry her, gets pregnant, begs him to quit the stage, loses hope and the baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through every possible vicissitude of a Broadway career-from Sorry, You're Not the Type to the Faithless Friend to the Marriage of Ambition...
...climate of horror develops soon enough. There are unearthly night noises, a ghostly hand scrawls HELP ELEANOR COME HOME, and some force or creature smears blood (or is it red paint?) over the clothes of another of the doctor's girl assistants. Eleanor begins to crack soon enough; her whole personality begins to disintegrate, and fantasy takes over from reality. She awakens at night to the call of her dead mother. All too soon it becomes obvious that Mama is the real couch-history villain and that Eleanor never really had a chance...
...gradually gives up her fears, her fight for sanity, puts out welcoming arms to the madness that embraces her. She dances through the house like a dervish at night, comes close to what seems happy suicide. By this time Dr. Montague and the others insist on sending her home, and Eleanor's life ends in one of those terrible scenes of mental horror that Author Jackson knows so well how to contrive. The difficulty is that the story is itself caught in a straitjacket fashioned by the lines of case history. Expert as it is, The Haunting of Hill...