Word: cupidities
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...relief unless they are incurable addicts of the wacky, the whimsical and the whopperish. Only in Saroyan, perhaps, could one meet the vice president of a cemetery company who yearns to write ad copy like "Inter here. A lot for your money." Or the off-key executive who plays Cupid by posting a lonely young man in an empty cubbyhole in the piano warehouse with no duties except to wait for the right girl to come along. She does. Saroyan alternates his fictional eccentrics with spiked nonfictional vignettes presumably drawn from his own true life, e.g., Saroyan as Tom Sawyer...
...Whims of Cupid was already over and the second presentation Somnambulist was in process. The dancers who swept before the footlights with such grace plunged towards us with great sighs, wiping their brows as they came...
...lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him after a farming stint in the Congo. The poor girl, Helen, had been a dance-hall hostess in England. She had foolishly married one Henry Seaman, who at school looked like a "nasty cupid," bullied small boys and dropped white mice down the fronts of girls' dresses. By the time he marries Helen, Henry finds himself managing a vast cattle ranch in the Congo. He has also advanced from white mice to other animals-he scares the wits out of the little woman...
...could not answer her riddles, Oedipus answered her correctly, and the Sphinx destroyed herself. He then married Jocasta, by whom he had four children, not knowing she was his own mother, or that he had killed his own father. *The Greek god of love, better known these days as Cupid...
Easily a favorite in the whole Cambo bequest is Goya's classical allegory, Cupid and Psyche. It displays against the neoclassic decor the same kind of full-bosomed, dark-haired beauty that Goya showed as his feminine ideal in his famous Nude Maja. The scarlet-draped Cupid, with muscular body yet almost feminine features, complements her as the idealized lover...