Word: incest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 1,625,000 in the U.S. At first the critics were amazed at the book's "maturity," but later many decided that the maturity was mostly just adultery. In this picture the adultery has been tastefully toned down. What is left is an old-fashioned story about incest...
...affair between father (David Niven) and daughter (Jean Seberg), which takes place mostly on the French Riviera, is not physical. Incest, as this story sees it, is emotional infantilism-the fear of life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
Discussing publicity for '"Tis Pity She's a Whore," John Ford's drama of incest, the club's former president, David E. Green '58 noted that there might be objections in Cambridge to the last word of the title. He said that the Cambridge Trust Company has refused to display an advertisement for the production in their windows...
Most Southern authors have a marked tendency to breathe harder than other writers, especially when they tackle historical fiction. Out of the huffing and puffing come purple imagery, melodrama of incest and murder, sentence structure as involuted as an express highway cloverleaf. The dividend from this school of writing is that the reader achieves a total immersion in the scene; the danger is that he may drown in words. Fortunately, Author Lytle (of Murfreesboro, Tenn.) comes up for air every now and then, and gets on with his story of life in the Cumberlands of Tennessee during the 1870s...
...anxious, seductive maneuver . . . Sleeping with children of the opposite sex is prolonged into the teen-age period. The mother may still continue to lie with the son, despite awareness that erections occur." Beyond this is a wide range of openly seductive behavior, from varying degrees of physical intimacy to incest...