Word: naomi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Schoolgirl reveals an attitude toward love and morals among the very young in the South. Naomi Bradshaw (Joanna Roos) plans to elope with a boy, is thwarted by the same father who spoke the same epigrams in Coquette (Charles Waldron), is sent to boarding school. Miss Barnes advances the theory that if her heroine had not been sent off to school she would not have been seduced by her boy friend, later to be pardoned by her erring parents. The play is embarrassingly bad for the most part...
...Naomi and Joe are forbidden to "keep company," but they meet by the starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook...
...does so at an inopportune moment. Brook has been forbidden by Caleb to dance and love Tony, foreigner, Catholic. But Naomi, frantic lest Brook miss the great love she herself had known so fleetingly, tells Brook why she need not obey her "father." In a frenzy of dutiful adolescent loyalty to this man who had treated her as his own, Brook escaped from Tony to Constantinople with a missionary friend of Caleb, and not till years later did she realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later...
...found in Author Bacon's bestsellers, just nice people doing nice things. Now, with the publication of Counterpoint after ten years, a few readers, remembering the old books, will be struck with the way a similar article produces a different reaction. Over this story of Will Stickney, of Naomi Lestrange (whom he marries, with whom he parts after vicissitudes, to whom he returns at the last), of many highly imaginary musical celebrities, there is a heavy coating of dust which almost obscures the few virtues which Author Bacon, as an artist, possesses. Whether literature has improved or changed...
...Naomi who resolves the impasse, by eloping suddenly with a sex-starved minister as far as Pittsburgh, where both commit prayerful suicide. This leaves Philip nothing to do but marry Mary and return to expiate something or other on the African postcard scene...