Word: hauntedness
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The title role is taken by Patrick Fitzpatrick, no ordinary ranch hand. Sure, he breaks broncs and gets violently drunk. But he also reads Thucydides, has a philologist's loathing for the bad grammar of his colleagues, and shops for mushrooms like Paul Bocuse. He values the purity and...
BLITHE SPIRIT TELLS THE STORY of a moderately happy married couple haunted by the blithe spirit of the husband's first wife. Elvira, who is really no more appealing than his second, living wife, but whose unusual status allows her a snideness the other characters cannot match. Throw in an...
Rodriguez, in fact, is his own best case history. "I have been haunted by how my education has made me different," he says. As a "socially disadvantaged" son of Spanish-speaking parents, he entered a Roman Catholic grammar school in Sacramento, Calif., when he was six, speaking barely 50 words...
Even though I was a child of the Depression, I know that joblessness is much more than an economic disaster. My father was haunted all of his life by the doubts and fears he developed during those terrible years about himself and his ability to provide for his family.
Stupidity, narrow-mindedness and indifference were even greater enemies, just as Jan Scruggs found they were in Viet Nam. He was 19 when a rocket grenade exploded behind him in a clearing near Xuan Loc on May 28, 1969. His anguish will heal finally, and maybe the nation's...