Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepts and makes friends. He is shocked when, after some of these colored friends come to visit him at his office, his white secretary resigns in horror. As the education of Toby's heart proceeds, he finds himself leading a double life: his white pals and his mistress would drop him like a synthetic diamond if they knew that he was going to slum homes in the colored quarters. Gradually he comes to value his colored friends more than the white-and by that time the last of his complacency is gone...
...Interest. The son of a carabiniere sergeant, Giambattista Giuffrè, now a bald, bouncy 56, began as a bank clerk and simple family man. Then he branched out. He took a mistress, buxom Rina Bianchini, setting up her cuckolded husband in the haberdashery business. Two years ago, when the husband killed himself, Giuffrè married Rina. During the years he lived in sin with her, Giuffrè served as lay administrator of several Franciscan monasteries. At World War II's end, when money began to flow in Italy again, Bank Clerk Giuffrè set out to go the banks...
...Unwanted. At a protest meeting, 350 farmers and their wives passed a resolution demanding that the government "stop this kind of thing." When Mistress Matimba went shopping, the white ladies of the village turned their backs on her. A tailor refused to accept her husband's trousers for dry cleaning. When Patrick entered a bank without removing his hat, a teller ordered him out for failing to show the proper respect for white depositors...
...Mistress Matimba collapsed after a miscarriage and had to be rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery. The white hospital let her in, but the superintendent bluntly told Patrick he could not see her-"even," as Patrick said later, "if dying.'' Frantic, Patrick transferred her to an African hospital where an operation was performed just in time...
...Charles Montfior, master of the Restaurant Chez Pavan, is in love with gentle Liane, mistress of the hotel's flower pots. But apart from a bit of boudoir athletics that no true Frenchman would take seriously, he never gets his girl. The trouble is, he cannot concentrate. He can never quite get his mind off Vashni, an old sweetheart with the heat of youthful summers "always close about her, like an extra fragrance, that of a blossom crisping in the sun, which the kiss found under the heavy gold anklets that polished the skin, and behind her knees . . ." Most...