Word: laoco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dilemma. Germany approached an ultimate crisis. As serpents encircled the classic victims of Laocoön (see cut, p. 25), so was Germany now enmeshed in all the currents and consequences of Naziism...
...Cain's three fascinations are the Laocoönic stranglings of sex, money (or its lack) and snobbery. His heroine, Mildred Pierce, finds herself entangled in all three. Divorced after eleven tame years of marriage, she finally manages to support her children through a pie-bakery. But little else in her life is quite as easy as pie. The first of her lovers, her husband's ex-partner, is only too ready to betray her when it means money to him. Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with...