Word: faber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marcheses, mercenary Bergamese whores, slippery Italian counts, witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spiteful Russian cats, specious Polish wizards, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and ambitious Irish cops." He is also completely immersed in the unquestionably sprightly, if unusually perverse, world of three painters-Benjamin Littleboy, Leo Faber and himself -all three who are struggling haplessly to deal with the vagaries of their art and of their lives...
...process, Littleboy is driven to hang himself. The narrator murders six Boston "innocents" and (accidentally) his friend Faber with strychnine. His wife runs off with his agent. His entire work is stolen. Reveries then turn into nightmares, and he goes completely mad. Summing up, he cries out, "I've been thwarted by an angel, duped by God and stalked by the Devil. Who would believe such things could happen in Boston...
...personal attack. When Daley returned to his modest brick bungalow in the Bridgeport section of the South Side, 800 admirers greeted him with cheers and signs: HOORAY FOR DALEY and PRIDE OF THE U.S.-CHICAGO POLICE. In the drab Six Corners neighborhood on the Northwest Side, Construction Worker Arthur Faber, 45, expressed the sentiments of perhaps a majority of Chicagoans and millions of other Americans: "I say he did all right. How else is he going to stop all this stuff...
...writing Essays. Among the other writers of one or more are Douglas Auchincloss, Joe David Brown, John T. Elson, Fred Gruin, Bruce Henderson, Robert Jones, William Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Ed Magnuson, Jason McManus and Robert Shnayerson. The principal researchers for the section are Mary Vanaman, Marion Pikul and Nancy Faber...
Richard's great-grandson stumbled onto that, he spirited it off to Munich's Karl and Faber auction house to sell for pocket money. "Götterdämmerung!" the family muttered when they heard what Wummi was up to. When the auction house refused to withdraw the sketch, the Wagners bid it back from themselves for $26,200, and dolefully paid $5,700 in commissions to the auctioneers. Wummi got not a pfennig...