Word: love
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find that neither his wife nor his children seem interested. In short order, Francis recognizes the maid at a neighbor's party as the same woman he had seen, years before, being shaved and stripped at a Normandy crossroads for collaborating with the Nazis. Rattled, Francis falls in love with the teen-age babysitter. Seeking psychiatric help, he is detained by police who think he is the one who has been making threatening phone calls to the doctor. Francis eventually winds up in the cellar of his house doing woodwork as therapy. Cheever paints a scene of dusk falling...
...lectures too self-consciously. But even as a preacher the author can be effective. Through the voice of Pug, Wouk writes that the world's destiny rests on a pathetically simple hope: "Most people, even the most fanatical and boneheaded Marxists, even the craziest nationalists and revolution aries, love their children, and don't want to see them burn up." Those who lived through World War II can most fully appreciate the resonances in this uncommonly readable book. But it is clearly meant - and recommended - for those...
ENGAGED. James Earl Ray, 50, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., serving a 99-year jail term near Knoxville, Tenn.; and Anna Sandhu, 32, courtroom artist. Explained Sandhu, who met Ray last year during a hearing on his prison escape: "I'm marrying him because I love him and because I know he's not a murderer...
...well as financially. Temptations to escape the marriage present themselves to both Henry and Julia, but after initial weakness, man and wife go back to each other in the end. Moone has his way--the couple finally heads south to his beloved Mexico, rather than the City of Brotherly Love, and presumably live prosperously ever after...
...would love some explanation, enlightenment or clarification about this said, sad state that your area is in. Selma Perton