Word: queering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their titles suggest, the novels are a queer quartet: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939). During his lifetime...
Another summary came from his House superintendent, a friend, "He was a queer guy. He got all mixed up with all these homosexuals and atheists. He got himself all screwed up thinking too much. I mean he never had a date because he was always too worried about something. Sometimes I'd give him advice or tell him he ought to go to church, but he never listened. I guess they taught him to be independent. He couldn't listen. I guess he always had the idea that he had something to say that was too important to listen...
...innocent, becomes notorious in all England. John's parents-his father is a vicar- hope that the scandal will vanish if they ignore it. He is sent to a different school. His name is changed. But to those who know, and those who do not, he is a queer duck. To John himself, life seems as opaque and resistant as if he were living on the ocean floor...
Throughout all the assaults of doubting newsmen. Bush remained good-naturedly sure of himself. "Gee, at first I thought nothing of this," he said, as if surprised by the attention. "Queer things happen to us pilots. Why, down in Sydney, there was that business of the shark . . . but let's not go into that...
...initiation rites begin in a small Mississippi River town in the '30s, with several of the stories pivoting around two youngsters named Jason and Ira Garrett. In Chip Canary, Jason tangles with the town queer woman, Elizabeth Minerva Stretch. She is a monstrous frump, always trundling a baby carriage full of junk and dubbed-for some shadowy peccadillo of the past-"Chip Canary." In a moment of adolescent bravado Jason yells out this taboo nickname, then breaks and runs. That night, snug in bed, Jason smiles as he hears his father say to his mother...