Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheerful & Talented. Though their styles differed, the Peales shared a common delight in painting one another. Husbands painted wives, daughters did fathers, nephews did uncles, everyone did in-laws. Charles Willson Peale painted one picture of James studying a miniature done by James's daughter Anna of Rembrandt's daughter Rosalba (herself a landscapist). He did another of James at work, probably on the portrait of his first wife Rachel, in miniature. "There was a happy cheerfulness in their countenances," observed old John Adams, viewing an early portrait by C. W. Peale of his family...
Somehow Betty survived-always short of breath and often blue in the face from oxygen starvation. She finished high school, married, got a real-estate and insurance broker's license and ran her business from a spic-and-span home. After several miscarriages, she raised an adopted daughter. But all the time she was growing steadily weaker. By mid-1965 she had wasted away to 69 Ibs. She did not have strength enough to leave her room...
...made to "relive the whole of history in a single night's sleep." He is a pubkeeper named Porter, but his Freudian alias in the dream is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Why Earwicker? Well, Porter's night life is invaded by an incestuous passion for his daughter Isobel (Iseult-Isolde). The inadmissible word "incest" sneaks by as "insect," specifically "earwig." Thus the odd name, says Burgess, is "dreamily appropriate...
...sensitive, cigarette huckster son of a despotic Greek rug dealer find happiness with the sleep-around daughter of a small-town Dixie bigot? Well, sort of. If you give him 444 pages to work...
...Evangelos Topouzoglou. A would-be Tolstoy reduced to pushing Zephyr cigarettes for an advertising agency, Eddie also moonlights as Edward Arness, writer of hatchet jobs for slick magazines. Anderson-Topouzoglou-Arness is trapped in a Los Angeles "Spanish Renaissance ranch house" with a patient wife, a confused teen-age daughter, a supply of Picassos, tabs from the liquor store, and his mate's meddling analyst. "Asleep in the dell of respectability," he awakes with a whoop after making it with Gwen Hunt, a former Dixie-belle show gal turned Girl Friday Night for the ad-agency boss...