Word: incest
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...will tell and retell. They mock tradition and rumor by registering as newlyweds in a motel, and asking for separate rooms because she is shy. But finally it is society that has the last laugh. Several years after Johnnie dies, Sallie learns that people had (falsely) accused them of incest. Even Sallie Collins can't laugh off that one. "Aren't people darling? Aren't they lovely?" she asks. "They's managed to ruin all the fun Johnnie and I had together all those years. Just think, I was married twice and had two children before I began to grow...
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill. The arena stage is not a very intense setting for this lacerating drama of greed, incest and infanticide on a New England farm, but an able company headed by Colleen Dewhurst pours the molten lava of passion over...
Guttmacher then proposed that abortion laws should be altered to permit abortion for the preservation of either the life or the health of the mother. They should permit badly deformed offspring to be aborted. They should allow abortion when conception occurred during rape or incest. And they should open the possibility of abortion under extenuating social circumstances
Women. The very word has a chilling, antonymous ring. It is faith beclouding reason, Art sapping Life. And it cannot be allowed to happen. Oh Colledge builded by Incest Mather and his helpmeet Prurience, take not this fatal step...
...symbolic characters, e.g., the good half of the viscount eventually shows up, and a pat ending is achieved when the two halves are rejoined. Still, there are passages almost worthy of Cervantes. A nun bemoans her sheltered life: "Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?" When two feudal armies clash, the impact knocks all their knightly paraphernalia to the ground. Instead of fighting, the knights scramble for loot, then make swaps. "What...