Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expensive People, the middle volume of a trilogy that began with A Garden of Earthly Delights, spooks the suburban-castle country of the upper middle class. Author Oates has but one message in her demonic little tale: behind the suburban facade lie corruption and madness. To hear her tell it, American husbands and wives are nice clean-cut vampires planting stakes in each other's hearts. And there is always the monster in the playroom...
...controversial teachers were harassed by the nonunion staff. One acting principal, herself a Negro, claimed that she was confronted and threatened in her office by outside militants and later intimidated by Ocean Hill Committee Chairman the Rev. C. Herbert Oliver-a charge Oliver dismissed as "a vicious lie, vomited from the jaws of hell...
...previous boss for continually "touching" her, incites Sisson into making groping passes. As the sexual tension increases, Sisson suffers double vision and temporary blind spells and takes to blindfolding himself with his secretary's scarf. At an office tea party, Sisson's wife and secretary delightedly lie down on Sisson's desk while the brother touches them with gentle intimacy. The unseeing Sisson stiffens catatonically in his chair and may just possibly be in his death throes...
...meaning will lie in the eye and mind of the beholder. The mirror is the message. The playgoer will see what he wants to see, which, even in these lesser plays, is Harold Pinter's subtlest hold...
Despite all this, concludes Lifton, the "militant rectitude" of the revolution continues to be threatened. The dan gers, he says, lie in the protean nature of man, whose "psychological style is characterized by easy shifts in belief and identification...