Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Book IV begins with a descriptive passage satirically called an "idyl." A young nurse flits between Dr. Paterson and an old dowager who appreciates her massages and hopes for lesbian intimacy. In this final glance at the wasteland of his time, Williams is at his best: he records the inflections of U.S. speech with accuracy and economy. But when he gets around to giving his own recipe for improving U.S. life, what seems to emerge is a shrill cry against "usury," oddly reminiscent of Ezra Pound...
...like a debased edition of Joyce's Molly Bloom. She teases, then repulses Mikey, ostensibly because of her husband McLeod, a gaunt, backslid Stalinist. Actually, she is having an affair with another tenant, Hollingsworth, a sadistic Government agent. A late entry in the sexual sweepstakes is Lannie, a Lesbian ex-Trotskyite with a touch of insanity who makes "strange" love to all but McLeod...
...correct school and home, a third in the brutal world of poverty and degradation that begins just around the corner. Before she is 13, Meg is raped by an older boy, manages to pass her history examination by threatening to expose her teacher, whom she has caught in a Lesbian relationship. Meg's parents know nothing of her life in that lurid world: few adults could hope to understand her much better in the other...