Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need anyone to size him up, cleverly tossed in the requisite bons mots and deliciously designated one of his characters "Fabrice." (Who could ever forget La Chartreuse de Parme!) That the piece was a hopeless tangle of words strewn in a thousand directions, indeed, that few could or would understand its nineteenth century affectations, mattered little. There was a beauty in words...
...keep the surprise element, daughter and son-in-law were not told that the old folks were actually back in The Netherlands, were given to understand they would only be chatting on the transatlantic phone. With the stage thus set, the old and young couples were brought together before the microphones. Seeing her mother, daughter Tine Mak, who is pregnant, promptly collapsed. Seeing her son-in-law, Margaretha Muylaert cried: "I think he's a horrid fellow." Son-in-law Adriaan Mak, a headwaiter, turned to a KLM representative and said angrily: "I told you this would happen...
...story of how the mother dies in order that Apu may live as he was meant to live. The mother gives and gives, the son takes and takes. The only thanks she gets are sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting his mother he is only trying to end his dependence on her; that the pain he inflicts on her is a measure of the fear he feels that he may fail to become a man. At every point the relationship between mother and growing boy is exactly understood...
...YOUNG ASSASSINS, by Juan Goytisolo (273 pp.; Knopf; $3.95), describes the half-silly, half-tragic capers of some angry young men who are not sure what they are angry about. Their arena is Madrid. Their indulgent parents are mostly well-to-do and cannot understand why their sons neglect their studies, spend their time with prostitutes and sneer at middle-class comforts. Up to that point, the youngsters described by young (28) Spanish Author Goytisolo have got their kicks from booze, sex and seedy night life. But when Ana, the lone girl in the gang and the only one with...
...describes in just about every large city in the world. The Young Assassins has the virtue of sympathetically describing youth's restlessness in a static society. Its weakness is its failure to dramatize psychological motives, which its author is precocious enough to sense but not mature enough to understand...