Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hidden struggle with a Jewish mother who called him "mein goldener Sigi" till the day she died? As Stone presents him, the young Freud is just another nice, bright Jewish boy, "my son the doctor," and his long and lust-tormented engagement to Martha Bernays is a Victorian idyl of sweet reason and unspattered upholstery...
...with their mother in a distant automobile wreck. (Patrick and Gregory, Hemingway's two sons by his second wife, were injured in an auto crash in 1947.) In "Bimini," though, Hudson's confrontation with this tragedy is mercifully kept brief. Most of the section is a summer idyl, drenched in martini golds and Gulf Stream blues, centered around the sons and an only slightly too epic fishing trip on what is clearly Hemingway's famous fishing boat, the Pilar...
...presents a stark, lean story of a young couple who go back to the land to scratch out some meaning. They have abandoned Berkeley, and now raise sheep in the ineffable Northern California coast. To the couple, it is an act of love; to the old man, the idyl is pointless and backward. He insists on staying with the unmarried couple until the baby comes, and snipes at their supernatural way of life. As the wrangle intensifies, Korty alleviates the strain with scenes of a vanishing existence-of undisturbed salt flats, of a newborn lamb on the grass, of vast...