Word: masons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANDY by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. 224 pages. Putnam...
Thruston (rhymes with Houston) Morton's Kentucky nudges the Mason-Dixon line, and his appointment offers calculated appeal to Southerner and Midwesterner alike. Morton is the seventh-generation member of a leading Kentucky family, a Yale graduate with citified manners and a Brooks Brothers look about him. Yet not even the backwoods folks of Kentucky mistake him for anything but what he is: a tough politician in a state that grows tough politicians. Big (6 ft. 2 in. and 190 lbs.) Thruston Morton is a shade to the rough-cut side of Mark Hatfield. But his vibrant voice...
...Mason Rascal's Heaven...
Jocelin, the dean of the cathedral, at first seems a perfect incipient saint. Unworldly, passionate, sure of God's love, he is imbued with a vision of the spire as a living prayer of praise. His master mason and architect threatens to quit, the cathedral has no real foundation so that the spire, even if built, is likely to fall, his fellows in the cathedral chapter all oppose the plan, but Jocelin will brook no interference. Consumed by his dream he goes into debt, disrupts the services of the cathedral, fills the choir with the blaspheming of dirty workmen...
...landslide rush, Golding undermines the reader's faith in the saintly fool. Soon Jocelin himself is wrestling with the high cost of inspiration, strung taut between the tenter hooks of divine and earthly means. He condones adultery and acquiesces in an accomplished murder to keep the master mason...