Word: son-in-law
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...somewhat lamely argues that the son-in-law is so possessively in love with his wife that he shuts the mother...
...mother-in-law's exit, the distraught son-in-law appears and explains that the old lady is mad. Her daughter died four years before, and the woman kept in the apartment is his second wife. He acts as he does to preserve the mother-in-law's illusion. No sooner has he left the room than the mother-in-law reappears to argue that her son-in-law is the mad one. Her daughter had been placed in an asylum, and when she returned, cured, the son-in-law would not acknowledge her as his wife...
Baffled by the equal credibility of both witnesses, the investigators demand to see the wife. She appears in a heavy black veil, announces that she is the mother-in-law's daughter and the son-in-law's second wife. "For myself," she says, "I am she whom you believe me to be." In one of the many meanings he intends, Pirandello says that truth is in the eye of the beholder...
...they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it?" The busybodies of the world who try to lift that veil find no truth, but they do uncover the pain at the heart of existence. If the motherin-law's daughter died, or if the son-in-law's wife was taken to an asylum, it may, in either instance, have been a reality too terrible to face. Pirandello agrees with O'Neill that man must have illusions to make life bearable...
Winner, 41, is in his first year as St. Louis' head coach, but he was to the manner born - so to speak - since he is the son-in-law of Weeb Ewbank, coach of the American Football League's New York Jets. Weeb is an accomplished coiner of aphorisms, which Charley is fond of quoting. His favorite: "Statistics are for losers...