Word: willises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The line-up for the psychiatrists: Dr. Joseph B. Wheelwright, British-educated Jungian; Dr. William A. Bellamy, Freudian; and Dr. Sam Nelken, an "eclectic" analyst who teaches at the University of California Medical School. For the priests: the Rev. Victor White, a Dominican, professor of theology at Oxford and lecturer...
SINCERELY, WILLIS WAYDE (511 pp.)-John P. Marquand- Little, Brown ($3.95).
When Willis Wayde was a young man, his father had a serious talk with him. "Willis," said the old man, "you keep on trying to be something you aren't, and you'll end up a son of a bitch . . . A lot of people do before they know...
The typical Marquand hero is usually caught in the middle-classic double play: Ford to Buick to Cadillac. But where The Late George Apley had a lot of endearing old charms and H. M. Pulham, Esq. wore his stuffiness with a certain dignity, Willis Wayde comes closer to being a...
Shades of Uriah Heep. Not that it is all Willis Wayde's fault. When he first arrives at Clyde, Mass, from Denver, he is a likable youngster. But he is quickly made to feel that he and his parents are nomads from the great American desert west of Boston...