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“LADIES’ CLOSES Sarah Kilpatrick, Double day, $4.50 Ralph Linton, noted authro- Fon has a famous quota makes any ting ¢ rigs and anything savah Kilpatrick, to say, ena a “is it possible for societal re action to be wrong?” Caro, Very attractive young female, is the chosen lover of Miss Whitehead, col lege narrator of the book. Parental pressure causes Care to break this chided in comprised ca rely of traditional rural images. This does not offer the need ed therapy, however, since memories of Care continue to haunt her here, Miss White head states quite sophatical ly that this has been “love of her life”. She “feels cheated by society's condem ntion of this type ” of relation ship, its narrow assessment of immorality and its judgment of it being “a shabby, little sin”. Miss Whitehead is joined at “Ladies* Close” by Emmy, whom she had tutored at col lege. Sadly one follows a tri angle of torn emotions; Examy loving Miss WVhitehead with mhe return of affection and Miss Whitehead still loving Nim who is now out of her belo inrency type young, pregnant miress of a male artist next door on head set this young tay sees im this young the possibility of another love. The ra ae lover, hon Miss Whitehead rejects the attentions of Godfrey, an in terested male who appeavs at “Ladies’ Close,” and arranges a match between him and Emmy. Ultimately, Miss Whitehead is alone, the void returns, the terror, the emptiness. The on ly thing to do is to return to college, her work, her stu dents. Her closing sentence, quite meaningful, is simply, “Perhaps some day I all have a carer if we stay within the rules of society, we may each have our staisfac- Mrs. Mary L. Heiser (Assistant professor of so ciology Weat Virginia State, College.)
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Gazette Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Jul 28, 1968
Page 100
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