Word: beau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, in "A Cold, Calculating Thing," it turns out that Ada Trimball's mother once slept with Ada's prospective beau to win him away from "a little chippy" for her daughter. (It didn't work.) In "In a Grove," Richard Warner goads an old enemy, William Grant, into sleeping with his new Mexican bride after lots of dirty talk, and then drills them both...
...Insofar as this volume has a central theme, it is a study in types of heroism, which are finally indistinguishable from what Mr. Gunn calls "modes of pleasure." On one side stand the byrnied and terrified warriors of the age of Ethelred and such perennial noblemen of the suicidal beau geste as Claus von Stauffenberg. Different only in degree are the tattooed and/or black-jacketed hoods, the "brave, terrible" queers, "fallen from/ The heights of twenty to middle age," such classic, superannuated hustlers as Rastignac, and "a few with historical/names"--Baudelaire, Caravaggio. Within them all persists the sullenness and flabby...
...connoisseur of wit and, even more, of social oddities and human blemishes. Horace carefully examined every ointment, hoping to discover a fly in it, minutely tested every piece of armor, hoping to encounter a crack; yet in all this there was less malice than sense of metier. As Beau Brummell dressed for future ages, or Lucullus dined, Walpole peered into corners. But he had, too, his more special, often laborious pursuits: Strawberry Hill, the house he built to his own design at Twickenham, virtually ushered in Britain's Gothic Revival, as his novel The Castle of Otranto set going...
...Chambovet, who explained delicately that "my friend Sacha told me to keep them for him." Sacha. arrested in a dawn raid on a Paris apartment, turned out to be Nicolai Gontscharow, 31, a handsome, suave, international cat man known on the Riviera as "le beau Sacha." Caught trying to sneak out a window (with a suitcase containing $10,000 in cash), Sacha claimed he was a simple jewelry salesman...
...impressive; police claimed Sacha was the leader of a gang of jewel thieves that have lifted several million from the mansions and hotels of France, Belgium and Germany since 1953. Said an exuberant Riviera police chief, hoping some of the month's robberies could be traced to le beau Sacha: "We have trapped a very big bird, undoubtedly the most important in the last 30 years...