Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MORGAN C. LARKIN
...Where the hell else but in America could you have a cheerful nihilism?" asks a leading character in this highly diverting book, which is a comedy with a tragic ending and, occasionally, a farce with a philosophical meaning. The character who asks the question is Joe Morgan, a history teacher at Wicomico State Teachers College, who has taught himself to "say good-by to objective values." He believes that energy is "what makes the difference between American pragmatism and French existentialism...
Fallible Device. Soon, in his one-man campaign to stamp out mental health, Horner seizes on his fellow teacher Joe Morgan, the energetic pragmatist. Morgan's wife Rennie is a kindred empty spirit. Says Horner of her: "She had peered deeply into herself and had found nothing." Rennie herself seems to agree. Of her life before she met Joe, she says: "I just dreamed along like a big blob of sleep." Now she regards her Joe as her personal God. After she discovers, in a grotesque episode of peeping tomfoolery, that her husband is not God after...
Gruesome in spirit, comic in detail, this triangle is doomed to ruin by Joe Morgan's philosophical code. He is stuck with the arid belief that his "values" are valuable simply because he believes in them, while his mad friend does not care what values he upholds; in fact, he has none. Joe talks everyone to death in the interests of honesty, and the spirit of togetherness is symbolized by the fact that husband and lover are made aware that they both use the same brand of contraceptive...
...Morgan's House. In 1953 Beadle married young, handsome Muriel Barnett, a feature writer who still works at her newspaper job on the Los Angeles Mirror-News. She has a teen-age son, Redmond Barnett, whom Beadle has legally adopted. They live on Pasadena's San Pasqual Street near the Caltech campus in a charming, rambling house that once belonged to Dr. Morgan and was sold by his widow to Caltech. The grounds glow with flowers, some of them experiments in genetics but still attractive, and a patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle...