Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sophocles' Oedipus, struggling to gauge the future and discovering that it twists horribly back into his own past, the characters in Two Worlds march blindly to their fate, doomed from the start but always demanding, with the eloquence and dignity of Aeschylean heroes, their right to respect as well as humiliation. They always get plenty of both from Ivy Compton-Burnett...
Hoarse Talk. The withering-away of Stanley Banks began the moment his daughter Kay told him that she was engaged. " 'Well, to begin with,' he gasped a little hysterically, 'who the hell is this Buckley anyway, and where the hell does he come from-and who does he think is going to support him? If it's me he's got another guess coming. And who in God's name...
...upstairs, basement, backyard and even the next street. Sometimes his signal meant that he wanted to take everybody for a ride in the big Pierce-Arrow. "How do you feed all those kids, mister?" folks would yell when the car had to stop for an intersection. His favorite answer: "Well, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know...
...Boisterous Chorus. The Family Council was the Gilbreths' plan for organizing the flock into a well-run, cooperative team. Every Sunday after dinner the council, with Dad as chairman, met around the table to appoint purchasing committees, divide up the house and yardwork on an equitable basis, and make decisions on such acquisitions as rugs and dogs. As the kids realized, this was merely an extension of Dad's ideas on employer-employee relations...
...Ernestine in Manhasset, N.Y.), their product lacks unity and presents the reader with only the haziest notion about the chronology of the Gilbreth tribe's doings. Though father Gilbreth often sounds (and sounds off) like father Day, Cheaper by the Dozen lacks the literary merits of its wise, well-honed predecessor. Mother Gilbreth's firm character is made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities of the twelve Gilbreth children are never created; they remain a vague, boisterous chorus. How little...