Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Irene's maid leaves. Author de Céspedes is so skilled that she can make this trite crisis the means of her restless heroine's selfdiscovery. The maid, Erminia, is a simple village girl who likes her mistress but finds her life confusing. She leaves to take a job with a woman who is a tyrant but at least leads a recognizable life: mistress of the house but subordinate to her husband, the master. Through Erminia's desertion. Irene comes to see that tedious family convention is not necessarily more depressing than her own joyless...
...hero forges onward and downward, square-jawed and indomitably prissy, his footsteps are dogged by the usual unmitigated cur (Thayer David), and loyally followed by four trite and true companions: a plucky youth (Pat Boone), a good-natured giant (Peter Ronson), a beautiful widow (Arlene Dahl) and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude. (The widow, of course, is present over the hero's most passionately prudish protests. "But madam, think!" he gasps. "The lack of privacy...