Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand he had shaken. And no reader of his novels, whatever the reservations about their real worth, could easily forget their impact. That is part of the trouble that confronts Biographer Andrew Turnbull. In his conversations, which were really monologues, and in his novels, notably Look Homeward, Angel and The Web and the Rock, Wolfe spilled it all. His autobiographical heat and drive, the boiling response of his senses, are the substance of his books; and he, no matter what the protagonist's name, is always the hero...
...with none. Politics interested him not at all, and economics could be summed up by comparing cash in hand with what he owed his landlord. He was an undisciplined poet of feelings, of emotions, usually his own and always tortured. Wolfe did leave memorable set pieces (in Look Homeward, Angel the death of his brother, the portrait of his stonecutter father) that have convinced two generations of his powers as a writer...
...literature, as well as economics, was 1929, when four works of immutable quality failed to make Miss Hackett's Big Board: two masterworks of William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and Sartoris; Thomas Wolfe's great epic of narcissism, family piety and nostalgia, Look Homeward, Angel; and Ernest Hemingway's pseudo-tough romance A Farewell to Arms ("You won't do our things with another girl?" whispered the dying nurse...
...Barbara were an angel, I'd pray she'd watch over...
...Shelly Fabares sang Johnny Angel...