Word: unction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monroe, La., probably has not seen so much unction since the halcyon days of Huey Long. There was smiling Tongsun Park signing autographs and granting interviews. He acted more like a Cajun politician than a disgraced influence peddler turned Government witness in the $213,000 bribery −tax evasion trial of former formidable Congressman Otto Passman, his old friend, in Passman's home town. Park even accepted an invitation to talk to 50 high school journalism students. Samples of their Q. and A.: How did he like Cajun food? Great, especially gumbo and rice. How were morals among young...
...America, fiction is always in trouble. The novel has been receiving extreme unction for 20 years, the short story is the waif of literature, perennially searching for a home. Yet this fall, scores of worthy novels have issued from distinguished publishers; stories still find a loyal readership. Random House Editorial Director Jason Epstein notes that James Michener's novel Chesapeake is selling twice as well as his last one. A first novel, Final Payments by Mary Gordon, has sold 40,000 copies. Says Epstein: The outlook for U.S. fiction has "never been better...
...over. "... There was a sheet over Jack, his foot was sticking out of the sheet, whiter than the sheet. His mouth was so beautiful ... his eyes were open. They found his hand under the sheet, and I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction." Her gloves had stiffened with his blood and she gave one of her hands to "this policeman," and he pulled the glove off. Then: "... the ring was all blood-stained ... so I put the ring on Jack's finger ... and then I kissed his hand...
...real life as well as in countless novels, plays and films, the arrival of a priest to administer the Roman Catholic sacrament of extreme unction has long had an ominous meaning: the patient was virtually given up for dead. Those whose condition was not in fact so grave could be given a nasty turn by the sight of the priest with his vial of holy oil. Now Pope Paul VI has changed all that. The sacrament, called "the anointing of the sick" since Vatican II, will hereafter be used not only for those who are in imminent danger of death...
...Play Strindberg, referring to his wife himself, marriage, life is general. That cheery thought illuminates the combat between Edgar, his failed actress of a wife Alice and a cousin Kurt who "coupled them up" 25 years ago, and now returns to contribute some of his banker's wealth and unction to the silver wedding anniversary Friedrich Durrenmatt's 1968 re-writing--or choreographing" as he terms it--of Strindberg's Dance of Death converts that play from a tragedy about marriage to a comedy about marriage tragedies and translates it into the terms of Brechtian "epic" theater...