Word: mother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge by the action of Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne in threatening to deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both Sue Simone Ingersoll and her mother for Sue's acts [July 20], then it would seem that the Roman Catholic Church has taken a leaf from Communism's book. It has learned how to punish an offender through the offender's loved ones...
...planted. Once, Hawaii was an island paradise of flowers and trees, of tawny Polynesian women and warrior chiefs, jungle fastnesses and snow-capped mountains. In 1778 Captain Cook discovered the islands, and was followed by lusty traders and, in the 18203, by the New England missionaries with their modest Mother Hubbards and their Protestant churches and teachers...
...core of the book is a well-conceived act of psychological villainy: the hero, crippled emotionally when his second wife dies in childbirth, raises his infant daughter in her mother's cold image, and thwarts all the child's efforts to break free of his oppressive love. But swathed about this core is an unbelievable amount of mustachioed melodrama. The novel's major fault is that, for the greater part of its length, the major actors glide about like decapitated ghosts searching for their heads, scaring the daylights out of onlookers but affecting each other...
...visitation of plagues. His face is ugly. He stammers. His best way of expressing an early-teen-age love is to jump out of a bamboo thicket in the path of his girl's bicycle and scare her half to death. One terrible night, he witnesses his mother in the act of adultery. It is typical of Author Mishima's gift for powerful indirection that this entire episode is conveyed in terms of a ripple of mosquito netting...
...graciousness is under pressure, she soon discovers. Her father, silver-haired Preston Woodcock III. is juggling martinis instead of balancing the family paper company's books. Her mother is outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara...