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...duty and seeks love and refuge in the arms of old family friend Pastor Manders. But those arms are too busy embracing the constraints of nineteenth century society to make room for a tearful would-be adultress, so Manders sends Helene right back to the Captain with a firm reproach and charter membership in the Cult of True Womanhood...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: An Affable 'Ghosts' | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

...still want him back, then?" the judge asks her, kindly, with only the slightest hint of reproach or mockery...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: At Long Last, Love | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...Karl, look," Anne gives her husband a soothing reproach. She seems to have heard this before. "If they give you a review that's two and a half columns, they take it seriously. Whether they disagree with you or not is another thing...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: What Do You Get When You Ask A Dirty Question? | 10/15/1975 | See Source »

...from her family as a result of her illness. In Theresa's withdrawal from her family, her only connection with people aside from her rigidly structured parochial school, Rossner lays the groundwork for Theresa's passivity toward all the men in her life. Her reaction to the constant unspoken reproach, the pity, is to bury her anxiety over her deformity as deeply inside her as possible. But it preoccupies her constantly...

Author: By Pooh Shapiro, | Title: A One-Night Affair | 9/27/1975 | See Source »

...Laura Z. Hobson's new novel, Consenting Adult (Doubleday; $7.95), the mother of a gay teen-ager first sends him to a psychiatrist, who fails to "cure" him. After a cycle of deep shock, self-reproach, bitter arguments and forced reconciliations, she finally comes to accept her son's homosexuality and even sends him a congratulatory telegram when he comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOMOSEXUALITY: Gays on the March | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

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