Word: idylic
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FRUIT OUT OF ROCK-Frances Gillmor-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). In this gently tragic idyl of the Arizona irrigation country Amanda loves her valley orchards, Stephen loves his mesa-browsing goats, Amanda and Stephen love each other. Drought sears the pasture lands, threatens to dehydrate the romance: valley grasses can save the starving goats or protect the orchards from floods. Stephen with his goats conquers the trees in Amanda's heart. But a flash flood drowns Stephen, leaves unwed Amanda to raise figs, peaches and Stephen's posthumous baby. Author Gillmor's tale has some...
Johnson virtually told a serialized story of their adventures for 25 years in the South Seas, Africa, Borneo. But because Osa Johnson also makes a companionate idyl of their life together, many a reader will agree that their adventures are worth telling twice...
...sentimental tour of Manhattan, spells danger for the stabbing, rebellious talent that made history on Broadway, it reveals, all the same, that the talent still exists. No two plays in one season could superficially have more in common than Odets' Night Music and Elmer Rice's Manhattan idyl, Two on an Island. But where Rice, turned slickster, wears false face and speaks in falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid...
...dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous men, her husband's fame...
...village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because it cannot be kept out of the corn patch...