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Much of the humor in Mass Appeal comes from the interplay between the two characters, Father Farley and the young seminarian he takes under his wing. Alive with contradictions and weaknesses, they take on a life beyond the dimensions of the theatre whenever Davis discusses them. "Characters are separate entities that kind of write themselves. I think a good writer is someone who allows passage. You let things pass through you and don't try to steer it all into your own personal biases. You just pick the words they should be saying. Ultimately, though, it's not really...
...detached. McCullough herself unwittingly calls attention to some of the holes in her description: The hospital base, Nurse Langtry decides, has made "almost no impression at all. As if it were a stage set, without substance or real meaning of its own, simply a claustrophobic backdrop for a complicated interplay of human emotions, wills, and desires." This image applies all too well to the picture we have been given of the happenings on Ward X. In fact, the backdrop McCullough describes amounts only to the sketchy biographical information she has presented in the first few pages of the book...
...with several extraneous alternative story lines. By the end, the novel has become only in part, the story of Honour Langtry, a 30-year-old nurse who has devoted her life to duty--"the indecent obsession." Langtry's sense of duty finally eclipses the sketchy tidbits of psychological interplay between the patients of Ward...
Most people equate Colonels with the Air Force or truckstop chicken, but in reality, a Colonel is something far more intangible. As he came gliding up the escalator in a blue suit and a string tie, his white hair and goatee perfectly groomed, you realized that no interplay of advertising could create something like this. There was something magnanimous in his eyes, and yet something discriminating. He walked with a timeless dignity that made you feel just too post-modern for words. He smiled and mused over the building. He was alone, but everyone here seemed to be his responsibility...
...American psychoanalyst who in 1930 co-founded the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the first psychiatric training school in the U.S., and was one of the last persons living to have been analyzed by Sigmund Freud; in Easton, Conn. A leader in the "environmental" school of psychiatry, which stresses the interplay of the psyche and culture, Kardiner once described Freud-his teacher and analyst in 1921 -as both a "genius," and "a regular...