Word: lovelessness
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...unborn ghosts of the future. She goes so far as to invent a set of rooms into which, as in a recurrent dream, her narrator magically steps to observe a child (herself as a child, or an Emily from another time, or both) living out some fairly loveless incidents from a past that may be real or subconscious. But no past of any sort can look as bleak as Mrs. Lessing's present. Only the future can outdo that...
...prosecuting psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Anthony Hopkins). In a way, Dysart is a physician who cannot heal himself. At the Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in southern England, he is a skeptical practitioner of Freudian exorcism. He is a devotee of reason yearning for Dionysian revels. He has a loveless marriage with a wife he has not even kissed in six years. He pores over pictures of Greek gods and tries to get close to pagan worship on vacations in the Peloponnesus...
...family drama. Awake and Sing! tells the almost deceptively simple story of Bessie Bogo, a lower middle class Jewish mother striving to propel her two children to economic success during a time when even survival is difficult. Her pretentions to respectability lead her to engineer a loveless marriage between her pregnant daughter and a hapless recent immigrant. Her relentless drive for upward mobility causes her to heartlessly disapprove of her son's love for a peniless orphan. Their struggles are played out with an important group of other stereotypical characters all used artfully by Odets. The grandfather Jacob counters Bessie...
...memoirs appears for a sudden reunion. They share caviar and steak. Eventually, the former mistress reveals that she possesses the letters Hugo once wrote to a homosexual lover he had always concealed. The actress accuses Hugo of the sins that Coward may have charged himself with: hypocrisy and a loveless, satirical...
When will the Harvard-Radcliffe students have the will or the courage to demand that buildings named for arrogant and loveless members of the ruling-class-Loeb, Lowell, and Lamont-be named instead for those who had the brains to quit before their hearts were dead and their souls cold...