Word: vizarded
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...MONTH OF SUNDAYS, by Louis Kronenberger (186 pp.; Viking; $3.75), is a witty farce with only a semblance of plot: Mrs. Vizard opens hostilities against Mrs. Bannerman because the latter serves Brown Betty for dessert. The scene is Serenity House, a resort version of Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, whose guest list makes the crowd at Bleak House look like a convention of bond salesmen. There are, among others, the social arbiter Mrs. Cortelyou ("When above 79th Street, do as they do above 79th Street"); the warring psychiatrists Dr. Onan L. Digges ("the Saniflush of the Unconscious") and the "Freudy...