Word: balzac
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...were promiscuous with her word processor. The idea that nice authors don't write around (18 novels, dozens of short stories, poems, criticism and a book on boxing) is consistent with a period that is excessively self-conscious about its artistic urges. It is unlikely that Victor Hugo, Balzac or Trollope was ever accused of scriptomania...
Hoping to record a collaboration that would lead to a revolution in human thought, Kenneth is stuck instead with a farce out of Balzac. Benn's wife and in-laws have plans for him. Matilda can hardly be supported as is her wont on her husband's salary of $60,000. But Benn has assets he has absentmindedly forgotten: an uncle of his, a notable crook in the disintegrating local Democratic machine, once bilked him and Kenneth's mother out of huge proceeds from the sale of family property. Dr. Layamon tells Benn man to man: "Well, as you will...
...book is organized topically, Bryan scatters memorable quotes throughout. Among them: Thomas de Quincey's observation that "if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking," as well as Balzac's "Behind every great fortune there is a crime" and Fred Allen's "A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." There are quizzes: 1. Was Romeo a Capulet or a Montague? 2. Which Wright brother made the first flight at Kitty Hawk? 3. What word has six successive...
...this is more than a scenario, and L'Amour has not simply traded Remingtons for rockets: his - knowledge of the frozen North is well researched, his KGB men have enough dimension to throw a long shadow, and along the trek he even mentions straight shooters like Ivan Karamazov and Balzac's Pere Goriot. Those were mighty rare figures on the old prairie; the garrulous storyteller is not only moving on, he is trading...
...Behind every great fortune there is a crime," wrote Honore de Balzac, and Swiss bankers seem to be concluding that the French novelist was right. Less than one month after freezing the bank accounts of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Switzerland last week took similar action against Haiti's deposed dictator, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier...