Word: illicitness
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...quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and he soon hated Midshipman Spencer. As the cruise wore on, Spencer remained moodily aloof from his fellow middies, plied his cronies, Boatswain's Mate Sam Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, with illicit brandy and cigars. Soon Spencer was poring over charts of the West Indies, boasting wildly that he would take over the Somers and become a buccaneer...
...orphan of the Saxophone Age." Stephen marries Elizabeth, but the relationship is marred by Elizabeth's dedication to her first love, "this wretched novel-I'm so heavy with it, I feel sometimes as if I could scarcely drag myself upstairs." Stephen not only strays into an illicit affair, but also dabbles in homosexuality. Elizabeth, who makes a cult of "understanding," forgives...
Like any king of the bankroll. Harry has his fawning circle of jesters and helpers. Jake of the G. Washington Motel is happy to send an overflow couple to the Green Glade for their illicit love-making as long as he gets his commission. Gil Leary tickles Harry's "sensayumer" with his birdbrain notions of a Green Glade lounge bar and partnership. Harry's brother. "Morris the Flop,'' sponges off Bachelor Harry to support a wife and kids. In his disciplinarian moods, Harry reminds them all that life is "doggy dog," his own squirrel-lipped version...
Everybody Is Inside. At war's end, Augie is living in Paris with Stella and, as usual, is deep in illicit business. But he feels he has arrived at wisdom. A man's character is his fate, Augie believes, and "this fate, or what he settles for, is also his character." The real battle, unseen from the outside, is internal, where "you labor, you wage and combat, settle scores, remember insults, fight, reply, deny, blab, denounce, triumph, outwit, overcome, vindicate, cry, persist, absolve, die and rise again. All by yourself! Where is everybody? Inside your breast and skin...
Decades of French fiction have pictured the Parisian husband as an amatory gymnast hopping gallantly from marital bedroom to illicit boudoir. In his sixth novel, and second book to be translated into English, Henri Calet gets a fresh camera angle on the old shot. His hero, a Parisian named Thomas Schumacher, is 40, greying and deadly tired of leading the fashionable double life. He is still rather fond of the wife he has just divorced, and has come to hate the mistress who is the mother of his infant son Paul. What with shuttling regularly between the two, tired...