Word: parsonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last story begins promisingly-a Negro foundling is placed on the doorstep of a prominent white parson who has six children, nine bathrooms, liberal views and a carnivorous wife. The reader is encouraged, feeling that from such a start Schwartz cannot fail to arrive somewhere. For a while this optimism is justified; idealism, hypocrisy and natural family contentiousness roil before one's very eyes, and the parson's eldest daughter, horrified to see her parents act like racists, dashes off to college with the baby...
...academic type who indulges himself in lengthy prose calisthenics on the destructive force of innocence in American society. It is a good meditation, filled with elaborately balanced sentences that deserve to' be read twice, and must be if one is to understand them. But what of the egregious parson and his wife? They were an excellently burlesqued Macbeth and Lady, but they disappear halfway through the second act, leaving the porter to explain the rest of the play. Not very surprisingly, the audience wants its money back...
...picture, faithful generally to the play, tells the story of a small-town prude (Geraldine Page), a Mississippi parson's daughter who as she approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...
Suddenly, the man she wants (Laurence Harvey) comes home from medical school, a fast-driving, wild-boozing, hard-gambling skeesicks who goes snuffling after every girl in town, including the parson's daughter. She rejects his propositions in horror, but in the ironic conclusion she comes tenderly round to his way of thinking, only to discover in horror and heartbreak that he has come round to hers...
...Professor Talcott Parson's approach to a unified theory of jargon, also comes at 11, and will concern itself with his rigorous categorizations of organism, personality, social systems and cultural systems. More elementary logical structures will be expounded at the same hour by Professor Willard Quine, whose Philosophy 140 is a classic unproductive to deductive logic...