Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"Coronation Committees”
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #23:
What Did It Mean?
by Angela Thirkell (1954)
https://angelathirkellsociety.org/writings/book-summaries/
The whole of England was now in an orgy of "Coronation Committees” and inevitably we are swept up. Lydia Merton and Mrs. Villars lead some old friends from the war years; Miss Pemberton and her cowed boarder, Mr. Downing; the Misses Hopgood and Crowder of the enigmatic Glycerine Cottage; Miss Hopgood’s Aunt; and Poppy Turner, to the glorious climax in the production of The Northbridge Coronation Pageant. Along the way, young Ludovic of Pomfret Towers emerges from his shell to shine in Aubrey and Jessica Clover’s short play staged as part of the festivities. Having arrived at a hiatus in the generations of Barsetshire where she has married off all suitably aged persons and is not quite ready to pair off the 3rd generation of fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds, Thirkell reaches back to the truncated romance between Mr. Downing and Mrs. Turner and (sanctioned by a seriously ill Miss Pemberton) again produces the mandatory nuptials.
and inevitably we are swept up.
Lydia Merton and Mrs. Villars lead some old friends from the war years; Miss Pemberton and her cowed boarder, Mr. Downing; the Misses Hopgood and Crowder of the enigmatic Glycerine Cottage; Miss Hopgood’s Aunt; and Poppy Turner, to the glorious climax in the production of The Northbridge Coronation Pageant.
Along the way, young Ludovic of Pomfret Towers emerges from his shell to shine in Aubrey and Jessica Clover’s short play staged as part of the festivities.
Having arrived at a hiatus in the generations of Barsetshire where she has married off all suitably aged persons and is not quite ready to pair off the 3rd generation of fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds, Thirkell reaches back to the truncated romance between Mr. Downing and Mrs. Turner and (sanctioned by a seriously ill Miss Pemberton) again produces the mandatory nuptials.
= Louis Jacobucci
"Prudential committee"
BRAD MITCHELL NAMED PART - TIME DIRECTOR
Barnstable Patriot, April 15, 1965
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James (Brad) Mitchell will serve as part-time religious education director for the
Unitarian Churcn as a result of the recent meeting at which funds for his salary were appropriated.
Brad starts his theological studies next fall In preparation for becoming R
Unltartan-Universaltst minister.
In other business,
Louis lJacobucci and
Irvin, Besse were elected to the
prudential committee and
Mr . and Mrs. Robert Barnet and
Miss Nancy Reider were named delegates for district denominational meetings.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Barnard and
Miss Hazel Young will represent the church at the general assembly of the
Unitarian-Universalis! Association and
Cape Cod Council o! Churches.
= Velveteen Andrews
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"Children of Violence"
Doris Lessing Book Summary:
"Martha Quest" and "A Proper Marriage" (1964)
http://www.dorislessing.org/amarriage.html
It is with particular pride that we publish
Mrs. Lessing's "Children of Violence,"
a series of five related novels,
of which the first two, written before
"The Golden Notebook,"
appear in the present volume.
The generation that was
born of one world war and
came of age in another -
these are the
children of violence whose
abrasive relationships
with their elders,
with one another, and
with society as a whole
are here brilliantly understood and depicted.
The center character of
"Children of Violence" is
Martha Quest, a young woman of intelligence and passion,
in open-nerved tough with herself of her fearful times.
Raised in a narrow, provincial community in
Central Africa, child of
colonial parents committed to the old way,
she has turned for direction and sustenance to literature, as previous generations turned to
religion.
But the moral standards that she has pieced together from her classic and modern writer-heroes are at odds with the life around her.
Seeing her
profoundest ideals denied
by the people closest to her,
she continually asks,
"How can they?"
(Treat the Africans that way,
act with such dishonesty toward one another,
pretend to regard their defeats as victories,
be content to drift
with every ill wind
from mindless youth
to dreary old age)
Continually outraged, she probes, argues, struggles to make them understand what they are doing. When she fails miserably, there is a final crisis; she leaves home.
But freedom provides its own shocks and confusions;
in rapid succession -
almost without volition -
involvement with the smart young set,
a ritual round of drinking and parties,
a suitable courtship,
a proper marriage,
an immediate pregnancy,
a young husband off to war,
and the sudden realization that
she is no more autonomous than her parents.
The old question re-occurs but with an important change. How can I? And, jolted by this sudden insight, Martha begins a scrupulous scrutiny of self and society, of motherhood and love, of the city with its racial tensions, of power and politics.
Martha Quest is
a true daughter of her century -
the quarreling century
in which
the conflict between the generations
reflects the conflict between old systems and new,
between ascendant and ascending nations and races.
Marthas personal history mirrors the convulsions and aspirations of our time:
the successful rebellion,
freedom and its tragic failures,
and finally,
despair transmuted
into a relentless determination
to understand life,
and through this understanding
discover
a way to live.
= Harriet McCurdy Cameron Hall Jacobucci
"The adult education and social concerns committee"
SOCIAL SEMINARS CONTINUE TUTIXSDAY
Barnstable Patriot, February 01, 1973
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The series of seminars on
Social Problems of Cape Cod
which began Feb. 1 at the
Unitarian Church continues Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. with
Jeffrey Lowery, director of the
Cape Cod Alcoholism Clinic, discussing Alcoholism on the Cape.
Moderator for the series sponsored by
'he adult education and social concerns committee
is
John F. Muknhy Jr., who also serves as chairman.
Other members of the committees are
Robert DeCelle,
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson F. McSeley,
Mrs. Harriet Hall,
Mrs. Judith Barnet,
Miss Nancy L. Reider,
Louis J. Jacobucci,
Mrs. Susan Brinckerhoff,
Mrs. Louise Lavigniac and
Mrs. Jo Ann Kelley.
