Word: distraughtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feverish, distraught age turned for a touchstone to the final great works of the aging Michelangelo...
...Distraught Marietta tries in various ways to exclude the worst of her mixed elements: she bars her ivory tower to poor MacDougal (symbol of Scotch commerce), spends hours doting on a road runner bird (symbol of the Old Spanish Southwest) in the pet department at Woolworth's (23rd Street branch). She opens her door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances...
...Distraught Susan at last turns to Clark Gable. A keen-eyed soldier of fortune who smuggles strategic goods to the Reds, Clark is more interested in releasing Susan from her inhibitions than her husband from jail. But a series of rebuffs (each time he kisses her she responds with a maidenly protest) makes him realize that this is a girl in a million-well, in a thousand. Clark determines to do the manly thing : he will produce her husband and let Susan choose between them...
...gave him a sedative, and left. The last words his visitor remembers were those of any man who is ill, questions like: "What time is it?" Around midnight Thomas suddenly went into coma. An ambulance rushed him to nearby St. Vincent's Hospital. During the next few days distraught poets, painters, sculptors and assorted hangers-on crowded into the hospital lobby, sometimes 40 deep. Thomas' wife Caitlin flew in from London, proved so distraught herself that she had to be put temporarily into a hospital at Astoria, L.I. That is where she was when Dylan Thomas died, without...
Herman Melville was in hock to his publishers and out of favor with his pubic. Moby Dick had provoked mixed reviews; its successor, Pierre, got savage ones. His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo. Exhausted and distraught, Melville developed neurotic mental tics and jumpy relatives made tentative moves to have him declared insane. His wife was soon to voice her special qualms in a letter to her mother: "Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around...