Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues, and membership runs to the likes of Senator Jacob Javits, Henry Ford, Truman Capote, the Duke of Bedford, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Douglas Dillon and George Plimpton. As Ginger Rogers says: "It's where you can meet the people you want to meet...
...Americans tend to make rather heavier weather of it. Take Marylou Whitney, whose husband Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to you) was a principal backer of Pan American World Airways, Gone With the Wind and enough other ventures to qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes...
...Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 69, scion of one of New York's first families, journalistic gadabout, author of 27 books (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents), mostly about himself; and Mrs. Mary Lou Bristol, 41, his sometime secretary; he for the seventh time, she for the second; in Reno...
...oneness is shattered when Cornelius hands Bruno over to the syndicate. Thereafter, in Chicago and New Yor,k, Cornelius loses his sense of himself and drifts feverishly into grubbing for a living. The girl who ran away from the village with him dies in a fire; word comes that Bruno has been senselessly murdered...
...appear in the U.S.), seems to suggest that modern technological man has lost meaningful continuity with the broader patterns of human destiny. Yanovsky puts force into this familiar proposition by his crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader no road map to that village...