Word: lovelessness
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...citizen of New Century Three who is saved from a loveless life by a siren named LARA 339-827. "I would like to be in a mating booth with her . . . the full authorized twenty minutes," he mutters to himself, after brief study of her "rhythmic" torso. Author Walt Sheldon gives him the torso for keeps by bundling the pair of them into a rocket and heading it for Mars...
Dolly is the most colorful character. According to the boy (who narrates the story), "her presence is a delicate happening." She compensates for her loveless existence with letters from her dropsy-cure customers, as does the cold, business-minded Verena with her profitable, secret ventures. Catherine, who is "dark as the angels of Africa" takes delight in cursing That One (Verena). "Her ugly moods sifted through the house like sour yellow mist. That One. Hush now, hush...
Values F.O.B. Ferris tries to fill the loveless void with cocktails, out-of-town stag sprees, and finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...
...minded philosopher, suffers much as his fellow men do when, without warning or explanation, all wives and daughters vanish from the face of the earth. A host of domestic chores such as he has never suspected fall into his philosophical lap; his shiny Miami home becomes a filthy, desolate, loveless stew, and Gaunt himself an unkempt, ragged relict in a life that has lost its meaning...
Desolate Havoc. Meanwhile, man's injustices to woman come to harvest when the women find themselves alone. They are spared the horrors of the hydrogen bomb (with which the desolate males of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. quickly and furiously make havoc of one another's loveless cities). But for the first time, even the most intelligent women wake up to the extent of their dependence on men, not only for food, shelter and euphoria, but also for self-confidence and the ability...