Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willingness to get right up against the raw emotion. Slade makes Muffy into the kind of quick, bright, funny girl you want immediately to reassure: to tell her that all the doubts, all the clumsiness will pass in a short time, and she will be really terrific. As for Miss Slade, she already...
...event, Shapiro is lying both times so why fuss over contradictions? I answered his questions like my fourth-grade teacher, Miss Wynertzky, taught me, politely, using "I" or "we" depending on whemher the singular or plural seemed appropriate. For example, I said that "we" (in this instance, the May 2nd movement), rather than me personally (as Shapiro reports it) initiated the Harvard anti-war movement in '64. Unlike Shapiro's other case studies, me and others in the WSA didn't drop off into a private world after '69. Since "we" have done much political organizing and much discussing things...
...civil rights case in support of the latest, though not the most fashionable "minority," Apostles of Light effectively makes its point: the very old are as invisible a group today as the blacks used to be. But Miss Douglas has composed far more than an old people's brief in fiction. A native Mississippian herself, Ellen Douglas has made her argument palpable in her milieu. The Southern-Gothic setting-decaying classical porticos plus mazes of wisteria and Confederate jasmine-closes around the reader and, like a perfect symbol, becomes the substance as well as the metaphor for the author...
Lucas Alexander, the doctor who has been Martha's old flame, comes to join her in the Golden Age ghetto, and without a false touch of pathos, Miss Douglas writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...
...presence of these active forces of anti-life, as well as the passive bystanders-Martha's relatives-Miss Douglas refuses to write a happy ending to her fairy tale. Martha and Lucas go up in the sort of gorgeous ritual blaze of self-destruction that besets Southern-Gothic houses in Southern-Gothic novels. But Martha and Lucas qualify, in Miss Douglas' phrase, as "celebrators of life"-and so does she, dramatizing with all the reason and passion at her command the bland and heinous modern crime of burying one's ancestors before they are dead...