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Clive dutifully livens his exposition by suggesting the obligatory sinister Victorian flaw. Macaulay, a lifelong bachelor, loved his younger sisters Margaret and Hannah more than a brother should. Working from this clue of psychological incest, Clive submits that Macaulay was a suppressed romantic, smoldering behind a mask of rationality. He even labors to make him a man of our time: asserting the intellectual capabilities and working performance of the black race, and defending the rights of Roman Catholics and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Bust | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

Playwright Levin develops the weirdness of his characters at the expense of their motivations. Thus incest, necrophilia and schizophrenic identity shifts enter the picture without clarifying it. This is a jigsaw puzzle with too many pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Jigsaw Puzzle | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...calls Blodgett. It lusts after Ginger Truepenny, who is not exactly Smackenfelt's mother-in-law, but close enough. She is the aunt who raised his orphaned wife Dolly, who spends most of her time writing plays. By such tasteful amendments does De Vries remove the curse of incest without seriously weakening the underpinning of his situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maternal Triangle | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

THERE WAS ONCE a game made out of movie star gossip. The object was to try to list everyone that counted in Hollywood--the experts could do it alphabetically--according to who slept with whom. And the winner completed an unbroken chain of names, an incest ring. I heard it rumored that one die-hard fan had played the game with Harvard gossip, and won. But it's most likely just a rumor...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...aware of these hazards. It cautions against regular use of the drug as a contraceptive. It also limits the use of DBS to pregnancies resulting from rape, incest, and other situations that doctors may consider emergencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Morning-After Pill | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

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