Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, there were some pertinent facts that McCarthy did not mention: 1) Mrs. Moss, a 49-year-old Negro widow, had appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in closed session and under oath denied that she had ever been a member of the Communist Party, or had ever engaged in espionage; 2) she did not encode or decode anything, had no access to the Pentagon code room, and handled top-secret messages only in the form of scrambled and unreadable Teletype tape; 3) the FBI agent, while identifying her by name and address, had admittedly never seen...
Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel. A Boston travel agent, Harvardman Grimes, 32, married a German war widow who had come to the U.S. to study at Columbia University. His wife Irmgard had left her two young daughters by her first marriage in East Germany with her father, but she and Peter quickly agreed that the family should be brought together...
...musical numbers recall German café music of the hungry '20s. The artfully threadbare orchestration gives them a kind of tawdry elegance, as of faded Viennese waltzes with indecisive endings. Among the best: Pirate Jenny, appealingly rasped by Composer Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya,* dreaming of an escape from drudgery by joining a pirate crew; the Ballad of Dependency, in which Comedienne Charlotte Rae derides Macheath's virility...
...apple of McIver's parental eye is Stevie Holt, a melancholy young painter patient with one suicide attempt behind him. The curing of Stevie is also a pet project of a thirtyish war widow on McIver's staff who sees eye to eye with him on therapeutic methods. Together with the "patients' governing committee," McIver and the widow concoct a plan for Stevie to design new draperies for the sanitarium living room. Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their...
...time the battle of the draperies is fought to a climax, Castle House is rocked to its foundations. Mclver climbs into bed with the widow, Karen does some lipstick-smudging with Devereaux, and Stevie nearly commits suicide all over again. At novel's end, Mclver is in full command of Castle House-but not much else...