Word: countess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countess is 53 and unmarried. She has eyes of piercing blue, a disconcertingly level gaze, and a low metallic voice that is mistress of three tongues. She shakes hands firmly, rather like a man, and is thrifty with her smiles. She is a connoisseur of fine wines and an excellent horsewoman. She has also been compared, with complimentary intent, to Walter Lippmann; and the comparison is at least vocationally just. For Dr. Marion Grafin Donhoff has one of West Germany's most respected bylines...
...lady is a countess named Tracy She drives like Stirling Moss and reeks of Guerlain. So far so good. But -horrors-she sometimes sounds like Debbie Reynolds. Gushes Tracy to Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid clich...
...still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round of grasping, joyless love goes on. Thoroughly depraved, Lulu even becomes involved with her stepson and a lesbian named Countess Geschwitz. Eventually she destroys both of them...
...countess who was born in a 19-room mansion. But now, as a U.S. citizen, she calls herself "Miss" and lives on a New York farm. For 24 years, Alexandra Tolstoy, 79, only living child of Russia's great novelist, has devoted her time to the care of anti-Communist refugees-and at her Tolstoy Foundation Center, near Nyack, is a group of Staroobriadtsi (Old Believers), survivors of a splinter sect of the Russian Orthodox Church whose members fled to Turkey from their homeland nearly 300 years ago. Miss Tolstoy enlisted the U.S. Government's aid in order...
Something between a slender novella and a fat short story, the book is set in the imaginary and chivalric German Grand Duchy of Babenhausen, more than a century ago. Told half in the recollections of a worldly old lady, half in the florid letters of an artist to a countess of the court, Isak Dinesen's baroque tale chronicles an attempted seduction-but not of the usual sort. The artist, Herr Cazotte, has laid siege to Ehrengard (literally "guard of honor"), an innocent blonde Walkyrie serving as maid of honor to a princess in an idyllic summer court...