Word: nymphomaniac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets progressively unzippered emotionally, The Caretakers also goes melodramatically berserk. One patient chokes to death in neglect, one attendant is strangled by an inmate, and a lecherous doctor who impregnates a nymphomaniac patient has his skull crushed by the woman's husband. Such aphrodisiac antics strongly suggest that Author Telfer's characters-the sick as well as the supposedly healthy-need a 72-hour cool-off in Hydro. But as a document of conditions in many state hospitals for the insane, now undergoing some exciting reforms (TIME, Nov. 16), the book will shock as well as arouse compassion...
...blend of revival-meeting urgency, circus gaiety, and kith-and-kin intimacy that flavors rural Southern politics. But the serpentine twists and turns of logic in his novel would tax Laocoön on a good wrestling day. There is a baffling subplot about a priggish schoolteacher and his nymphomaniac wife, who farms out her favors on a faded billiard table. Though the teacher is unnerved by a hint of scandal, he spends most of his time goading his wife into the arms of her lovers. One is Ol' Gene, and by the time the billiard-table girl finishes...
Before justice of a sort catches up with the feckless Oliver, he either seduces or proves irresistible to: 1) his father's gardener's daughter, 2) a blowzy barmaid, 3) a golddigger, 4) a bohemian nymphomaniac, 5) his elder brother's fiancée. Oliver may be just a crazy mixed-up cad to the reader, but in a fatuously psychiatrical reconciliation scene, Oliver's father shoulders the blame: "I think perhaps you represented to me the little daughter I never had and always longed for." A Sunnylands Granger would have the answer to that...
...principals in this affair are Gene Massie, a lecherous old politician running for governor, and Harrison Garner, a local schoolteacher and a liberal. Garner's wife, who is a nymphomaniac, also figures prominently in the plot, and ultimately proves the undoing of both Massie and her husband...
What with a suicide, a normal death, an abortion, an aristocratic nymphomaniac and a wig-fetishist of an elevator operator, The Pink Hotel might have rated a black mark in any Baedeker except for Author Dennis' quips and quiddities, e.g., anent the nouveaux riches: "Better nouveau than never." The book also enjoys spoofing the Hippocratic oath of the hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging...