Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racial Intermarriage. Fitzpatrick sees the Puerto Rican migration as a real boon to New York and America. Unlike the previous immigrants, the Puerto Ricans bring with them a history of rack-tolerance and a tradition of social intermingling that lets them marry people of other skin colors, from Negroes to whites...
...RACK (414 pp.)-A. E. Ellis-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...achieved by any book in 1958. Said the Times Literary Supplement: "The book exercises a complete fascination." Said the Irish Times: "Quite possibly a masterpiece." Despite the sometimes awesome gulf that separates British and U.S. tastes, U.S. readers are likely to find themselves agreeing with these judgments of The Rack...
...finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition among sanatoria entrepreneurs, who often measure their profit margins by the pennies they save in the kitchen. Seen as an expose of the tuberculosis racket, The Rack would be notable as a muckraking novel alone...
...secretly learned of the infidelity and how he reacted with something more than a Gallic shrug. His grandfather might have shot, whipped or choked the villain straightway. But a man of the husband's generation intends no violence. Instead, he wants to stretch the lovers on a psychological rack, then leave the actor there and reclaim his wife. As a starter, he hires a private detective to make keyhole photographs. For divorce proceedings? "Mais non. For the family album...