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Purring contentedly. Eliot is quick to admit that he owes his resurgent health and happiness to his copper-haired second wife,* an attractively plump Yorkshire lass with a creamy complexion, who has reminded more than one Eliot fan of Grishkin with her famous "promise of pneumatic bliss." Says a hard-boiled pal: "He's got this mad thing about love. The way he gazes with sheep's eyes at his wife you'd never guess they'd been married nearly two years and seen each other every day before that for seven." Valerie...
Still legend is the public bliss that surrounded the wedding of Eddie and Debbie three years ago in an enchanted castle named Grossinger's, a famed Catskills resort. At the time, pressagents recalled glowingly that when Debbie was in high school her mother had embroidered sweaters for her with the initials N.N.-for "non-neckers." Eddie, while never one to be stopped by initials, seemed to behave, at least for a while, and did not chase around a bit more than he had as a bachelor...
Fellow honor students, Stepho and Nadia fell in love. When not taking Nadia to dances or to the movies, Stepho spent his spare time in such places as Faisal's Snack Bar on the Avenue Bliss, where hot-eyed students argued Pan-Arab politics. Stepho daydreamed of being a jet pilot in the service of Nasser and Arab nationalism...
...more chic by the minute. Latest evidence: the summer issue of Chicago Review, which contains nine articles on the subject, a poem, and an excerpt from Zen-loving, "beat" Novelist Jack (On the Road) Kerouac's forthcoming The Dharma Bums. Begins Kerouac: "LET THERE BE BLOWING-OUT AND BLISS FOREVERMORE...
...discover "how little difference there was between the" feel of a Jewish girl's thigh and that of a shickseh." He capitulates completely in his next encounter with a shickseh, marries her, fathers two sons and moves to a broad-minded suburb to live in the material bliss that is the reward of the truly assimilated. But the past will not down. A great deal of complicated, coincidental plotting brings back Dora Dienst, villainous Danny and a conspiratorial political boss for a tumultuous weekend that Hero George appears to believe can destroy his tidy life...