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Word: totentanz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Totentanz, a trick clause in a will and the brightness of an over-perceptive pansy bring about the downfall of the socially ambitious wife of a university professor. In a winsome domestic scene from A Visit in Bad Taste, a man newly released from prison, where he has done time for a sexual offense against a child, is encouraged by his sister to commit suicide. In Raspberry Jam, a little boy goes to tea with two old ladies, both of them drunks and one a nymphomaniac; they get him tipsy, and after telling him about an Italian lover she once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surprise Around the Corner | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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