Word: myra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond that, the girls are as different as the writers who tell their stories. Eva's creator is bestselling Author (Compulsion) Meyer Levin; Myra's, an Irish poet and novelist named Francis Stuart. Their two tales are popular blends of genuine escape and ingenuous escapades...
...Myra & Resignation. By comparison, Victors and Vanquished sounds more like romantic imagination than on-the-spot recollection from Author Stuart's shadowed war years. His Myra emerges first in peacetime Berlin, where Luke Cassidy, the novel's hero, is lecturing on English literature. He falls ill, and Nurse Myra ministers to him so angelically that later, after war has broken out, Cassidy feels he must see her again. He skips neutral Ireland to resume his post at Berlin University. Myra shows neither surprise nor joy when Cassidy returns from Ireland to announce his love and troubled decision...
...Myra is not hunting either for a ring or parental approval. She is a natural creature of obedience, stoic when the time comes to pin on the stigmatic yellow badge. She accepts Cassidy's infant foster daughter, his dull and his dangerous cronies, his personal instability as readily as her father's orthodox wisdom. When she finally goes to bed with Cassidy, it is with the air of "This, too, shall pass." For all that, Myra is not a wooden figure. She is at least as believable in her resignation as is Eva in her chin-up tenacity...
That, as far as Belle was concerned, was the end of the glory road, but she lived on for another quarter-century-"still preferring forbidden fruit, still daring to pick it." and writing her memoirs with the help -of English Teacher Myra Chipman. Two years ago, in a "basement hovel" in Manhattan's East Fifties. Belle died at the age of 82, having designed her own tombstone with the inscription: "This is the only stone I have left unturned...
Unfortunately, Myra Mailloux seems all wrong as Patty O'Neill. There is nothing naive or innocent in this characterization; nor, for that matter, is there anything genuinely worldly. Miss Mailloux has a way of delivering her lines that makes one doubt that she really knows what she is saying. The result in an ingenuous Patty, wide-eyed but blank...