Word: wyatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow-the-hero level, the action of The Recognitions may seem simple. Wyatt Gwyon is the shy son of a New England preacher. His mother has died during a trip to Spain, and he is brought up under the gimlet eye and Puritan maxims of a crabby maiden aunt. In Paris, he holes up in a studio and paints, but he gets panned by the critics. Wyatt is soon back in a Greenwich Village flat with a draftsman's job and a possessive wife just out of analysis. He sheds his wife, and sells himself into esthetic and moral...
Gallery of Despair. But on a deeper level, Wyatt is making another pilgrimage, a modern Pilgrim's Progress, and there is a kind of nimbus about him at the end. He is enveloped in a world of spiritual bankrupts who tide themselves over their despair with drink, drugs and periodic injections of selfdelusion. In this gallery, some are mad and many are damned...
...Gwyon, Wyatt's father, finds gin more consoling than the Protestantism he preaches. When he is not hitting the bottle, he soaks up the rites of non-Christian faiths. One Christmas he comes unhinged, proclaims the gospel of Mithra from the pulpit after sacrificing a black bull. His horrified congregation packs him off to a sanitarium calted Happymount...
Under Secretary Ward tried to reassure M.P.s: "I should make t clear that as it is, the Hunter . . . could go into action tomorrow." Laborite Woodrow Wyatt protested: "How can the Minister say that? Is it not the case that ... at present we have no air defense whatsoever of this country?" The Hunter's troubles, according to the Air Ministry, can be "got over." Much more serious is the continuing fact that whereas Britain's flashy prototypes dazzle the air-show crowd at Farnborough. the production models rarely come up to expectations. Designers criticize the government for "messing around...
...told them I was going to be rough and make good soldiers out of them." When Alabama Private Jesse Wyatt picked up a club in a scuffle with Negro Sergeant Hayward Walker, Lieut. Anderson ordered Wyatt strung up by his heels. When two of the men were dirty, the lieutenant ordered public sand baths. When a 24-year-old law-school graduate who had taken one of the sand baths fell exhausted after doing pushups, Lieut. Anderson ordered him covered with dirt and a cross placed in his mouth. "If he wanted to act like he was dead, I wanted...