Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start of a revolution in psychiatry in which drug cures will supersede psychoanalysis and other therapies aimed at emotional change. To the dismay of many Freudians, Fieve said that Freud's classic analysis of the "Wolf Man" was a failure, and that the patient, a severely disturbed Russian aristocrat, could have been cured quickly with lithium...
...sardonic and materialistic to be an actual fairy tale, and too dreamy and slow-moving to be truly picaresque. Barry is tricked into enlisting, deserts, impersonates an officer, is caught, joins a card-sharping fellow-Irishman and finally marries the enigmatic Countess of Lyndon, a wealthy, beautiful English aristocrat...
...memory. His continual shifting of location and characters is baffling at first; how can he have something important to say about the life and customs of each place, about the young Hebrew scholar and the aging Catholic priest, the Canadian orphan with musical aspirations and the illiterate Italian aristocrat? Slowly, it becomes apparent that Helprin is experimenting with the application of his theme--the mixture of past and present--to different situations...
...corrupt aristocrat moves painfully by day. At night, of course, he is able to change from man to bat to wolf to fog. The human characters who have been hunting Dracula in the light now lie abed, weak with doubt, receptive to phantoms. A winged shape flutters at the casement-ludicrous as a plot device, but classically suggestive as an embodiment of dread...
...construct the perfect dialogue from long-retired phrases and adolescent sexual puns. Oscar's favorite line, as he tries to figure out how much the girl is really worth, is the standard flyer: "Didn't her brother leave her something?" In classic versions of the "fortune" plot an aristocrat's title was responsible for all that loot. But this is a painstakingly American comedy; it turns out that Freddy's mother has left her a fortune in Quintessa Sanitary Napkins...