Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Lydia Chippman was 15 she was sent away from home. She was never told why. At 35, returning, she deeply needed to know what no one would tell her, and stared, through enigmas, relics, last-gasp confessions, upon the gradual flowering of her parents' dreadful past. Some feminine passages may give masculine readers the fantods. Yet the novel as a whole has the exquisite gentleness and exactitude, and the fascination, which reside in the proper treatment of an elaborate wound...
...program at the Institute of Geographical Exploratin will seem admirable. Featuring Danielle Darrieux (elle garde toujours ses lignes), Abus de Confiance is a pleasant little tale about an orphan girl in Paris who is forced to quit the university because her grandmother dies without leaving any money. Danielle, as Lydia, tries every means to earn herself a living; that is, except the unmentionable--and she refuses to try that. She has a pretty hard time because of all the men who appreciate her for the wrong reasons, but manages to stand them off, starving all the while. In desperation...
...LYDIA HARRIS San Francisco, Calif...
...about women from an easygoing army wife in Khartoum. He learns about good and evil when it comes out that half the Battery resorted to homosexuality during the months of isolation. On a camel trek, alone, Tubby finds himself at last in a mystical exaltation of thirst and exhaustion. . . . Lydia is rather implausibly waiting for him when he steps off the boat and out of the army...
...race, Tubby smashes up and spends months in a hospital, where he has time for unaccustomed cerebration. "Daddy" visits him, troubles him with bitter gibes at the caste-ridden army system. "Sammy" comes and perturbs him still more with philosophical questionings. Recovered, Tubby feels like making love to Lydia, a sophisticated beauty of Belgrave Square. She tells him that what he needs is a nice, kind widow...