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...little soul-tapers lighting the way." No story could hold a candle to her own 37-year marriage to the late pianist Jacques S. Danielson. Bedeviled by her disapproving parents, the couple were wed in secret in 1915, maintained separate apartments, and for years stole off for rendezvous like illicit lovers. When the story finally got out, Fannie explained, "You see, we're keeping the dew on the rose...
...their five days, whether their activities have been licit or illicit, cultural or psychedelic, they dutifully turn up at the R&R center for the trip back to Viet Nam, tired, probably broke, but almost certainly happy -or at least, happier...
Symbols & Substance. Since Albee is a playwright of the surreal, the coincidence of the wives' being call girls is not particularly damaging. But the husbands' casual murder of a drunken neighbor who discovers their illicit secret is less acceptable; it seems an excessively melodramatic device for making the point that the corruption of values means death...
Lest the public think that the racketeers are mellowing, the crime commission warned: "In whatever activity organized crime engages, legitimate or illicit, its method of operation is the same-the maintenance of a monopoly through extortion and violence or imposing the fear of violence." Added Commission Vice Chairman Daniel Walker: "They only get their money by dealing with the public, and the public can shut off their source of funds...
...poet, however, becomes the victim of his own exhortation: his rhetoric helps to clarify the futility of the affair. If he is successful, if he draws Lise finally into the experience of furtive and illicit love, he prevents the affair from ever becoming permanent. They cannot publicize their love...