Word: lovelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beetle on the Blade. In her latest novel, Author Bolton tries to fill a larger frame. The Christmas Tree is the story of a possessive mother and a mother-possessed son, of how she got that way through a thwarted childhood and a loveless marriage, and of how her son became a homosexual and finally a murderer...
...think of. That is just where the fascists find their man. Intimacy is the story of a frigid wife who leaves her dull, impotent husband to go away with a lover, changes her mind in a burst of muddled pity for her husband and returns to a loveless marriage...
...venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical discussions of socialism, loveless matings on rooming-house beds, artful schemes to marry pregnant girls to somebody else...
...Valley (Warner) is a story about lonely people, and what the breakdown of their loneliness does for them-and to them. A remote California farm is abruptly opened to contact with the world when a convict road gang bulldozes its way into the neighborhood. The daughter (Ida Lupino), a loveless, stammering slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course, on the transfigured...
...nursing, was jealous of her without cause, and committed suicide. Since she was getting nowhere with Heflin, Joan married Massey. His daughter, Geraldine Brooks, believing her late mother's fantasies about the treacherous nurse, hated Joan. And every time Heflin turned up, Joan got wobbly in her loveless marriage. Worse still, she saw an affair ripening between Heflin and her stepdaughter...