Word: cavaliere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hordes of Cabots, Lowells and O'Reilly's have accepted the art of Scollay Square in a proper spirit of clean fun. And Boston has been justly proud, in more tolerant times, to be known as the home of this nation's first legitimate theatre. In fact, the cavalier action...
In short, as Author Gary acknowledges by quoting it, his hero is afflicted with the old Cavalier conviction: "I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honor more." Explicitly, his duty is to keep making the world safe for the kind of love he lives for. Rainier...
Amorous Defense. Author Gary does not waste much sympathy on Ann's husband, Willie Bauché, who is having hives, hay fever and asthma at the thought of having lost her to Rainier. Willie is a Hollywood "universal genius" and triple-decker phony, not quite real enough to be...
Novelist Gary, who is also a professional French diplomat at the United Nations, has succeeded fairly well in portraying that complicated rarity, the intellectual cavalier. Also, no doubt of it, he has turned out one of the most amorous defenses of democracy in a long time.
Of two situations, as Johnson said, that will always have the disadvantage which we have already tried. For we have actually felt its liabilities at first hand, while, in imagining prospects we have not yet been forced to live through, the disadvantages are less vividly felt, and we fix our...