Word: julians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crash of a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina (TIME, Jan. 18) was caused by sabotage. Reported CAB Chairman James Durfee: "We have found evidence that a dynamite explosion, initiated by a dry-cell battery, occurred within the aircraft cabin in the vicinity of the seat occupied by Julian Frank." Manhattan Lawyer Frank, deeply in debt, had insured his life for more than...
Laid in New Orleans, Toys in the Attic pivots on 34-year-old Julian Berniers, a weak, likable ne'er-do-well who has been protectively kept going by two adoring old-maid sisters who toil and stint for him. Recently he has married an odd, unbalanced rich girl who is possessively happy with him only when they are hard up. Suddenly and mysteriously, Julian manages to get hold of a lot of money. He comes home, cocky and excited, to fling money about, shower everyone with presents, give his sisters passages to Europe and a paid-off mortgage...
...jubilant; in fact, everyone is distressed. Julian's wife and sisters somehow know that they have lost him now that he has found his feet; his ungrown-up dependence on them was their happiness, his money spells their insecurity. They also know, learn, or are told many other things-for example, one of Julian's sisters has always had an incestuous love for him. It is she, acting through the simple-minded wife, who viciously contrives to get Julian back with them on the old terms. But they are not the old terms. Blindman's Buff...
...trade paper, and he could serve as a model for the hopeless, lonely English young men who have lost even the energy to be angry. He lives in a seedy flat, eats in grubby restaurants, walks himself into exhaustion, and desperately kills time in movie houses. Compared to Brother Julian, though, Charlie's not 'arf bad. Julian, married and an advertising writer, is a compulsive, indiscriminate lecher without being really lustful. At the moment he is in real trouble, having got his landlord's teen-age daughter pregnant. His wife knows, and soon all his family knows...
Before Author Bowen has completed his depressing but real picture, Charles has tried to escape existence by suicide-and failed even at that. Julian goes off for a Mediterranean holiday with his father to think things out. but simply sinks deeper into sordid sexual adventure. Back home, he unintentionally causes his father's death, an event that leaves Mother lonely but the boys untouched. The colonel was as empty of purpose as the others, but at least he had housed his purposelessness in character. All the boys can agree to do is to "go on trying then...