Word: misfits
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...Prix de la Nouvelle Vague in 1959. That book told, with almost clinical clarity, of the inexorable destruction of a young woman who surrenders herself to an insatiable, mad alcoholic. It is not likely that Rochefort's new novel will win any prizes. Celine is a casually wicked misfit who cannot abide middle-class posturings. So she marries Philippe, a stuffed middle-class shirt who is "obsessed with the Absolute the way some people are with golf." Middle-class sex with Philippe only accentuates Celine's boredom, and so she drifts into some high-class sex with...
...characters are caught in emotional suspensions that have no geographical limits. Gradwell, in The Pet, hates the bulldog kept by his white employers: "Symbol of all the white man's savage glee in turning the black man from his door." But the dog is something of a misfit himself: he refuses to bark at strangers, ignores the bitch brought around for mating purposes. He is indeed a great, slobbering, sheepish failure "always conscious of wrongdoing." Hate turns to sympathy, as Gradwell recognizes his kinship with this other outsider: "He broke off a piece of bread and threw it, saying...
These ten stories steer misfit characters on wildly futile tacks toward identity. They are contemporary fairy tales, dreams embedded in urban concrete and spun from the thoughts of people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does...
...Misfit." Before leaving for London on his way back to the U.S., Kennedy visited with Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland and symbol of the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to the Communist government. Polish officials urged him not to see the cardinal, insisting it would be against the best interests of U.S.Polish relations. Kennedy disagreed, pointed out he was a Catholic on a private trip to Poland. He and the cardinal talked for an hour at the Jasna Gora monastery in southern Poland...
...views on U.S. domestic matters and his own future. The head of the Polish Student Union at the university city of Cracow wanted to know about his brother's assassination. "I believe it was done by a man with the name of Oswald," Kennedy replied, "who was a misfit in society. There is no question that he did it on his own and by himself." He said, for the dozenth time, that he would step down as Attorney General after the November elections. Later, still musing about the possibilities, he said he just might spend a year in England...