Word: lawrencian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into marriage. His attitudes are obviously meant to contrast with Cole's freewheeling irresponsibility, and they do, in a straight forward, obvious way. Linda Goranson works at a similar level as Ruth Lowe, the girl whose refusal to consummate her role as the female aristocrat opposite to Cole's Lawrencian peasant not only depresses Cole but sends him into a rage." The two of them plod through the cliched relationship in a series of mildly abrasive encounters--on the street, in a thicket during a church social, and over the phone...