Word: affectionate
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From Nora, Joyce demanded continual proofs of love. The major one, right at the outset, was that she leave Ireland with him as his mistress in 1904. They were finally married in 1931, but only to make sure that Joyce's family could legally claim his estate. Nora gave...
Lapsed Daughter. As valuable as the letters themselves is the brief, brilliant introduction by Richard Ellmann, who has already written the best biography of Joyce. Though Joyce regarded himself as an exiled genius in revolt against the bourgeois world, Ellmann notes that he "could not live outside the environment of...
But Congress had little affection for the idea until Lyndon Johnson became President. Though he had been conditioned to traditional fiscal notions, he was so impressed by the success of earlier Government stimulants-such as the tax credit for capital investments and liberalization of depreciation allowances-that he put his...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The author keeps his own rather gaudy personality under wraps as he writes with compassion and detachment of his father's affection-starved Victorian upbringing. Little Winny was a master politician even then-wheedling, chiding, cajoling his distant parents for a little love...
Thunder from the Right. Boxing has been Hugh Benbow's love ever since he left home at 15 with $50 pinned to his underwear. Forty fights later, Lightweight Benbow quit the ring to become a businessman, but his affection for the sport remained. He made one fortune in costume...