Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play's deadfall guy, Stanley (James Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...
...George III that occasional U.S. visitors have felt for Ho Chi Minh: "I wished some of my violent countrymen could have such an opportunity. They would be convinced that George III has not one grain of tyranny in his composition. A man of his fine feelings, so good a husband, so kind a father cannot be a tyrant...
Into this precarious and primitive world bursts Charlie Hook (Dirk Bogarde), Mother's former husband and therefore the children's putative parent. Charlie is the classic cad; he gulls the kids with razzle-dazzle and big talk, swindles them out of their savings, and fills their mother's house with booze and popsies. The climax comes when Charlie puts the house up for sale, profanes their devotions, and triumphantly vilifies mother...
...Nowhere perhaps is the correspondence between art and life more striking than in the New Town Market Square (see color opposite). There stands the lovely baroque Church of the Nuns of the Holy Sacrament, completed in 1687 in fulfillment of a vow made by Queen Maria Kazimiera as her husband, King John Sobieski, rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled by bombs and artillery shells, burying 35 nuns, four priests, and 4,000 civilian rebels under the wreckage. Today, newly...
...kind of thing that can drive you out of your mind." She selects details oddly, noting explicitly that her mother's gun was a Walther automatic but remarking about her first marriage only that it ended "for reasons of a personal nature." Neither her exile nor her last husband, Brajesh Singh, whom she loved and mourned, are mentioned in the book. She says she "cannot live without God . . . the ultimate triumph of good over evil." Yet her theology finds no object in her story...