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...recalls "my mother's passionate desire to do me harm." Given this bias, one could hardly expect a dispassionate recollection of times past. But H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life is more than the defense of a neglected author. It is a kind of intellectual's Mommie Dearest, a serious chronicle that uses Rebecca West as a counterweight to raise the reputation of her lover...
Ralph: What happened, dearest? Did she come into some money...
Ralph: Sounds awfully shaky to me, dearest. Two vibrating people in one small apartment might be enough to drive Stanley back to Altoona. What other news from the front...
Every man in the platoon was in thrall to Mommy dearest; at 31, Fred could not resist the pill-popping, unstable Ruth Coe, who was often his "date" at realty open houses. She also accompanied him on frequent hairstyling appointments. "If Kevin hesitated in the middle of a sentence," recalled the receptionist, "Mrs. Coe would fill in the word. They're that close!" Then, one evening, after a quarrel about his lack of accomplishment, Ruth vandalized Coe's car. "Don't let Son upset you," she once told Perham. "He's not worth it." Perham...
...despite the traditional xenophobia of the Soviets, many of today's young say that their dearest wish is to travel to other countries, especially the U.S.; the most popular foreign language taught in schools is English. Passion for American music is so strong that it sometimes revives détente: last June a rock extravaganza in Moscow was linked by satellite with a jazz concert in California. Natasha and some of her friends met seven U.S. college students en route from Kiev to Moscow last summer. Suspicion dissolved into excited questions on topics ranging from rock music to nuclear...