Word: incest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other physicians take precisely the opposite view. Dr. Daniel G. Morton, obstetrics chief at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, states frankly: "Therapeutic abortions have been done here for German measles and other reasons." Among the "other reasons" accepted at many medical centers are rape and incest...
...Sigfrid half chokes her to death, as the boy in that play strangled the baby sitter. And the mortal baiting of the homosexual in Bump follows the cruelly bantering tone and logic of the venomous get-the-guests game in Virginia Woolf. The effect is worse than theatrical incest: it is rather like spreading disease in the guise of curing corruption...
...book is a pot boiler--implausible, silly, absurd. The critics, more patronizing than venomous, they were right. It is a joke. A good joke, and even Norman knew we would laugh, with its superhero hero, outrageous farce situations. Or a grotesque joke, so ugly with violence and incest and morbid broodings and salacious psychopathology; a joke in bad taste...
Sebastian's story begins as the summer idyl of a well-to-do youth on his family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells...
...FAMILY OF PASCUAL DUARTE, by Camilo Jose Cela. Another novel on the Spanish national theme, incest and blood hatred, with the central Spanish symbol, the bullfight. Cela's version excels both in bitterness and narrative control...