Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eric is the startlingly handsome twin brother of startlingly beautiful Erika, and the father of her child after a love affair of many years. The Vidal of the novel-in-the-form-of-a-memoir-or vice versa-had sex with Erika too. He was also attracted to Eric, though they never quite made it to bed. In addition, there is Marietta Donegal, an aging mystical novelist who was once lover to both men. The incest angle is best read as a suborbital send-up of Ada, Vladimir Nabokov's incestuous riddle of time and memory. For starters there...
...times he becomes a troubled adolescent rather than as a fool who is also pretentious. But his good moments are not numerous enough, and, because he has a good deal of talent, his failure in the role becomes sad, and somehow symbolic of the botched job the whole affair...
PERHAPS what Harvard needs is a good non-fiction novel about a pot-smoking radical from St. Paul's who has an affair with an assistant professor from the liberal caucus whom he meets secretly in the Widener archives and who gets arrested in a demonstration but dies of meningitis in jail before his rich, conservative magazine-writer father can sell the movie rights. Or perhaps a good book-burning...
Edgerton and MacAndrew do not deny the physical effects of drink on, say, a man's ability to walk and talk straight. They do argue that these effects are offset by behavior that is "essentially a learned affair." Their moral: "Since societies, like individuals, get the sorts of drunken comportment that they allow, they deserve what they...
...Ogata family, particularly Shingo, the head of the household. At 62, he feels old and vaguely discontented. The light in his life comes from his new daughter-in-law Kikuko, and he is constantly made despondent by the fact that her husband is already carrying on a public affair...