Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as their story exploded in the press, newsmen tracked down the couple on holiday at a hotel in Montreux, Switzerland, and the idyl throbbed in the headlines. Sobbing and distraught, Kathleen returned to London in the company of her lawyer. "He has the face of a saint and is the only man I'll ever love," she said of Philip. "We are ready to forgive and forget. We still love you dearly," said Eileen Ross in a message to her husband. Thus doubly beloved, the Rev. Mr. Ross-Davies prudently lingered in Europe, while in England...
...outwardly dashing and handsome Eugene is a perverse, embittered prodigal who soon pollutes the lakeside idyl. Affronted to find that Natalia has stepped unscarred from the ruins of their childhood, Eugene exacts subtle penance from his sister. Capriciously, he urges her to become the mistress of a Roman grandee. Then, he virtually thrusts Natalia into the arms of malevolent Count Kovanski. In a savage bedroom scene, Kovanski and Natalia both recognize Eugene as a pitiful parasite. Later that night the prodigal brother himself stumbles into Natalia's arms for a final, incestuous reckoning...
Author Brinkley, 38, himself a Navy veteran of both Mediterranean and Pacific campaigns and currently an assistant editor of LIFE, laces in an implausible South Pacific idyl between a Harvard man and a high-bred island girl named Melora. But at novel's end, old Marblehead is back at stage center, having finally mastered his sextant: "Really it's very simple, isn't it ... unlike Public Relations. Why, ∧any meathead could be a seagoing officer...
...seamy-side Novelist Nelson (A Walk on the Wild Side) Algren avidly snapped at some old-bone subjects dangled before him in Manhattan by a World-Telegram and Sunman. Of his erstwhile great and good friend, French Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who unwarily dedicated her latest existentialist idyl, The Mandarins, to Algren: "A good female novelist ought to have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown it up." Of the present "pretty bad" state of U.S. fiction, as exemplified by the "elevation...
...Idyl at Soestdijk. To all outward appearances, no ruling house in Europe can boast the solid, sobersided respectability of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. For an aggregate of 66 years, its last two Queens have reigned with the placidity of huisvrouwen. The marriage of the present Queen Juliana,who succeeded to the throne at the retirement of her mother Wilhelmina in 1948, to German Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence...