Word: incestousness
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...Incest is the issue in Louis Malle's new comedy, even though the film manages to reach an ending that has all the simple-minded cheeriness of an updated Gallic episode of Leave it to Beaver. Witness: 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier, shoes in hand, tiptoes into his room after spending the night with a new girl-friend. He freezes when he spots, waiting for him in the room, his two older brothers and his father--whose threatening look demands an explanation for his son's absence. While Laurent is still standing in awkward silence, his mother enters, sizes...
...produced the obligatory respected books-The German Tradition in American Political Thought -and the obligatory handsome children. But with his daughters, the unflawed pattern begins to crack. Though Louisa, the older girl, is as in love with her father as he is with her-a near case of incest-she senses the dry rot behind his probity. Touring Africa, she sees Third World poverty and asks her father to put his money where his mouth is. The radicalizing of his teen-ager catches Henry faking. He begs the question. Like a deceptively mild inquisitor, Author Read keeps turning the screws...
Comparatively few who seek abortions have strictly medical reasons, such as their own health or suspected congenital abnormality in the fetus. Rape and incest account for a negligible percentage of unwanted pregnancies. Women seek legal abortions for the familiar reasons: reluctance to interrupt career plans, lack of money, fear of losing personal freedom, uncertainty about their relationship with the man involved...
...Institute's recommended code. The measure allows abortion up to the 16th week if a board of doctors agrees that the pregnancy endangers the physical or emotional health of the woman, if there is suspicion of fetal abnormality, or if pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Since then, eleven other states, including California, have adopted variations of the recommended code...
Beside this terrible banality, Keneally's suggestion that family is another name for incest seems positively matter-of-fact. Further Keneally theories: an exceptional child is doomed to play Joan of Arc-martyr-to parents, who compulsively burn as witch that truthful spirit in the child that sees the beast in its elders and, worse, announces it. "Parents, for all their preaching and threats, turn out to be the children," the remarkable Barbara observes. This freedom to speculate, Keneally may be saying, is the only freedom...