Word: pyncheon
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Those with a taste for literary allusions will find more to savor here. Names lifted from other Hawthorne novels (Blithedale, Pyncheon) crop up in unexpected contexts; as Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...
...House of the Seven Gables (Universal) will enable people who have sometimes wondered what Nathaniel Hawthorne's 381-page New England novel is about to find out in some 87 minutes. It is about the property lust and slow decline of the Pyncheon tribe. Hawthorne addicts will not be too much upset since with a little more taste in casting and staging, this might have been a first-rate film. George Sanders is greedy Brother Jaffrey Pyncheon. Vincent Price is his long-suffering brother. Clifford. As prim, loyal, repressed Cousin Hepzibah, Margaret Lindsay does a Bette Davis, and does...
After Mr. White's address the society voted in the following new members: W. H. C. Pyncheon, Gr., and H. F. Willard '93, and the reports of the secretary and treasurer for the last half year were read and accepted...
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