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Sure enough, the troubles of both girls trace straight back to their parents. Mother Reynolds is a hysterical hypochondriac who alternates between self-pity and a sense of guilt about being an inadequate mother. Father Reynolds, reluctant to admit middle age, fumes because his wife no longer understands him. In their own subconscious reactions to the family tensions, the girls go off on rocky tangents: Marjorie into a vapid affair with a college boy, Sally into a dash to New York after her father shocks her with an ardent...
...piled in, along with half a dozen large suitcases. As the bus entered the city, the Pontecorvo boy asked again, "Are we now in Russia?" Just outside the Finnish Airways office in the Esplanade, the bus stopped. The Pontecorvos picked up a taxicab and sped off. After that, no trace...
...name I trace...
Playwright Tennessee Williams' first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...
...zoologists' intention is, of course, beyond reproach. To trace man's ancestry to the ape and the chimpanzee is a noble purpose. And this purpose they have made explicit wherever possible; they have placed a mother monkey, for instance, with her stuffed infant over her knee...