Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tiger in the Garden" follows the Richardson children, Caroline, Percy, and Byron, from their genteel childhood before World War I, through Caroline's scandalous elopement with Joe Conway, a man of no social standing with whom all women want to sleep: through Percy's drunkenness, debauchery, homosexuality, and early death. Conway, at first scorned by his in-laws, makes a fortune when oil is discovered in the old cotton fields, and periodically escapes the sterile Richardsons by running off to New Orleans with a lady of fashion and culture...
Oddly, for a young novelist, Lamkin has put his story in the words of a middle-aged man. Henry has grown up with the Richardsons, as one of their "poor cousins." All his life he has lived in the double shadow of the Richardson grandeur and his own mother. In a languid, casual prose that reflects his own insipidity, Henry tells his cousins' story, while he himself is changing from an absolute disciple of the noble Richardson myth to a disillusioned old bank clerk who decries its "false majesty...
...Fallen Idol. Graham Greene and Carol Reed (see above) wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigue; with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April...
...Fallen Idol. Graham Greene and Carol Reed (see above), wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigue; with Ralph Richardson and Michele Morgan (TIME, April...
...Says No. His ascent to stardom has not been entirely a one-man show. Considerable credit goes to hardworking, 35-year-old Mug Richardson, who has been with him for 16 years, ever since -as "Miss North Carolina of 1934"-she stopped off in Washington on her way to New York. Arthur, visibly impressed, pays her the highest tribute he can make to womanhood: "She's wholesome." And he adds: "I knew she wouldn't fit into the kind of razzmatazz she was headed...