Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such teen-age adulation has brought Disk Jockey Clark offers to make a dozen movies. But to date, Clark's rugged round of rock 'n' roll for TV has left him no time for Hollywood. In fact, he is so busy rolling in the money as the Pied Piper of the teen-agers that when his wife Barbara and their year-old son move this summer into a new beach house that Clark's jack has built on the Maryland shore, he simply won't have time to join them...
...really new and unique entity," in which the problem of protecting the crew against radiation is a surprisingly minor factor. Unlike old-fashioned subs, which had a Navy surgeon aboard as an occasional guest, the atomic subs always carry a medical officer and two hospital corpsmen to carry out round-the-clock safety checks and research...
Michigan: "And who has time to think about the way we live now? I got important work to do: for the company, for togetherness with the wife and kiddies around TV, for love once a week (Thursday; ; up and at 'em 7 a.m. for another round, bigger and better. You've gotta be on the ball every minute in this world, buddy. Gotta live hard if you're gonna get anywhere. Read a book? How long's it take? Sorry pal, I gotta...
...Hunter is an existentially minded drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned wife Sylvia once took him for a big social cheese, but now knows him for an ineffectual mouse. Their son John, a taut, brooding boy of 14, and his nondescript little sister round out the unhappy Hunter clan...
...their parents, they warm to each other. In keeping with the outdoorsy spirit of the novel's amours, Molly finally succumbs to Johnny on a sand dune. The wedding bells have a somber ring, what with Molly pregnant at 17, but middle-aging Ken and Sylvia Jorgenson rally round, and Summer Place ends on a sunnily implausible note of general contentment...