Word: wife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What I like about ranchin' is you're not workin' with the public; you're not all boxed in, crowded in. An' listen, we have some fun. My wife and I go to Vegas every year. You get hooked on farmin', really. I'm the third generation on this farm; my grandfather came here from Ireland in 1882 ?he had a family of ten. You know, I'd hate to see even one field sold away from the ranch...
...campaign worker for Eugene McCarthy (is nothing sacred?); a scholarly type who mumbles "I read your paper . . . It's very impressive" as she's being undressed; and a transvestite, presumably added to assure the widest possible audience appeal. Finally Psychiatrist Torn comes apart from his pregnant wife and his sterile life...
...visiting his home town with his wife and children examines his bizarre behavior at a drugstore (a childhood hangout). "It seemed to him now that he had gone to the drugstore on purpose that morning. . . . It had been intended to satisfy some passing and unnamed need of his, but the adventure had cut too deep in his memory, and into what was more than mere memory . . . cut beyond all the good sense and reasonableness that made life seem worthwhile-or even tolerable." Matt finds his dark face-his hostile violent face-"a monstrous obtrusion on the relatively bright scene that...
This man-while confronting his unknown self at the breakfast table-is surrounded by his old but liberal parents and his intelligent and gentle wife. They are open, non-exclusive people-maybe, the reader has a feeling, the brightest in the community. By the end of the story "At a Drugstore" Matt has conquered his monstrous image. He is bright, perceptive; he has been able to escape the home town, the home section of the country; and he has been able to make peace with his town and his father. However, Matt is more capable of appreciating, of externalizing...
...complex stories is a subtle description of black-white relations in the thirties, forties, and fifties: as in the narration of a "fancy woman's" concern for what the kitchen help think of her when she visits a rich gentleman's house for a week. Or "A Wife of Nashville's" relations with her cooks. Or the bitter introversion of old Aunt Munsie: a one-time slave, she comes to realize that to Dr. Tolliver's children-whom she raised-she is Aunt Munsie only in the village of Thornton (where people know one another's real place anyway...