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'A Month of Sundays'
by Warren Rochene
DTH Contributor 4
A Month at SurJy- by John VptU&M, Ard A. Knopf, Inc.
228 pp. $8 95.
Forgive me my denomination and my
town;
I am a christian minister, and an
American.
1 write these pages at some point in the
time of Richard Nixon's unravelling.
These words are the appropriate opening
of John Updike's latest novel: A Month of
Sundays. The novel is an unravelling. As the
Reverend Thomas Marshfield unravels the
spool of his memory onto a therapeutic
typewriter, he recounts his personal
unravelling. Marshfield has been sent from
his local parish in shame to a hotel in the
west, where he can be rehabilitated. His
therapy is filling "a sheaf of blank sheets."
He plays golf, cards and other games with
other miscreant clergy in the afternoons
and evenings; in the mornings Marshfield
writes, purging his soul.
The language in A Month of Sundays is
Updike's usual thick and well-flavored. In
thirty-one sections, one for each day of the
month, the Reverend Marshfield tells of his
sins in a humorous and overwrought style.
He uses such phrases as "a warmed-over
McGovernism of smug lamenting," and "the
apoplectic stiffness that inseminates the
world." Even in the sermons, where the
language undergoes a slight conversion, the
lull Updike touch is there, his still freshand
rich as in earlier Updike novels, leading the
reader through thick verbiage that is to be
savored.
The novel is a confessional of the errant
life of the reverent Marshfield of his
seduction and affair with his organist, Alicia;
his growing up in his father's parsonage; his
marriage to the daughter of his ethics
professor all the little pieces of his life as it
has fallen apart, causing him to be sent to the
omega-shaped hotel of Ms. Prynne.
U pdike takes us through this collapse, and
we go through laughing. We watch the cleric
fumbling outside the parsonage on a cool
morning without pajama bottoms trying to
discover if his organist-mistress has betrayed
him to his bisexual curate. We see the "fine
dry skin in the soft knit dress" of Frankie
Harlow, a parishioner who looks to him for
solace in her basement and in the choir loft;
we witness Marshfield's other sexual
indiscretions in "the robing room, smelling
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the Sunday school nursery ..."
There is even the semi-parody of The
Scarlet Utter, the Ms. Prynne; the
Reverend Chillingworth all of this a nice
bit oi tongue-in-cheek by Updike.
Beyond the humor, this is a novel of . . .
human contact, this blank-browed thing we
do for one another," sexual or otherwise.
Marshfield gropes for this throughout the
novel in a pathetically humorous way.
But Marshfield fails: he loses Alicia; he
becomes completely estranged from his wife
and even becomes impotent, losing his last
avenue of reaching other people. Updike
does not condemn Marshfield to aloneness
however, on the last night of his stay at the
hotel, Ms. Prynne finds her way to his
bedroom and the roadblocks to Marshfield's
sexual contacts are removed. Perhaps he will
now be able to touch others.
A Month oj Sundays is a good novel, in
some ways perhaps even brilliant. It is
satisfying and amusing to read. However, it
does not fill the air after the book is closed.
There is a nice lingering, but the contented
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sigh oi having read a really good book is not
there. Updike does not completely give ot
himself to this novel; it is good but does not
quite fill.
by Ralph J. trace
Contributing Editor
Last November, Raleigh's political
observers were saying, "Senator Kincaid will
have to go along to get along."
But Donald R. Kincaid, state senator and
lone survivor of last November's devastating
defeat of GOP state legislators, has
established himself as his own man.
The only Republican in the fifty-member
state senate, Kincaid comments that his two
terms as senator and preceding three terms
as a state representative have given him
enough familiarity with the legislature and
the people in it to overcome the
disadvantages of his GOP affiliation.
"1 feel the bills I've introduced are needed
in North Carolina and cover pretty broad
areas," said the 37-year-old lawmaker,
adding, "I've seen problems in the state that
need to be corrected and I listen to what my
constituents have to say."
Republican Gov. Holshouser adds to the
GOP's dilemma in the senate by introducing
administration proposals through a friendly
Democratic senator rather than Kincaid.
"I discussed the matter with the governor
and 1 don't feel snubbed," said Kincaid
explaining that channeling the governor's
proposals through a friendly Democrat
would probably strengthen the chances for
passage in a predominantly Democratic
legislature.
Far from being given unfavorable
committee assignments, the GOP "black
duck" of the senate has gotten everything he
has asked for, particularly the committees on
insurance and agriculture. Kincaid is an
insurance agent by occupation and also a
part-time farmer.
The GOP legislator doesn't feel that the
political situation in the state has
condemned him to "second class
membership" in the senate.
"1 think I'll contribute just as much this
year as 1 did last session, if not more,"
Kincaid says.
Meanwhile, people are noticing that
Senator Kincaid will not be a Democratic
whipping boy and "go along to get along."
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