Word: incest
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...Majestic, is probably less dull than most of its predecessors, being saved by the ingenious idea of having a father unaware of his high school daughter's fallen state and a daughter unaware of her conference-attending father's peccadilloes recognize each other on the brink of incest. The quick swoop of the lustful hawk onto his defenceless prey and the horror of the ensuing recognition provide a few tense moments in the long and wearisome record of the ruination of Ann Dixon...
...husband, marry and live happily ever after, with no pangs of remorse. A model of devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young...
THIS BRIGHT SUMMER - Anonymous-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Rape, incest, murder and suicide in New England hills add up to a ludicrously gruesome pastoral of horror-Faulkner material without grace of Faulkner ability...
...nothing of his existence; everyone but Sheila thought he was Dermot's son. Years later, his mother and father dead, Barry met Gordon's daughter Meredith. Not knowing they were half-brother and sister they fell in love. Poet Robinson Jeffers would have carried them on to incest. Author Benét stops things just in time, lets Barry drown...
...Sullivan's burlesque on Mourning Becomes Electra, the most elaborate buffoonery in the show, runs to punning. One character is mortally "a-Freud." another consents to a request with "Well, if you incest." Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the one who gets shot at the end of the rigmarole, but is happily saved from death by a telephone book which he has been concealing beneath his clothing the manuscript for his new play...