Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fitzgerald might have been less intimidated beforehand had he realized how well his hostess understood human insecurities and frailties. "Goodbye, goodbye," she had written Fullerton in 1908. "Write or don't write, as you feel the impulse -- but hold me long & close in your thoughts. I shall take up so little room, & it's only there that I'm happy!" She was then internationally renowned but also trapped in a long, misbegotten marriage to / Edward R. (Teddy) Wharton, a hale fellow and manic-depressive whom her good friend Henry James suspected of being "cerebrally compromised." On the other hand...
...disappointed lovers feel this way, of course, but not every one of them commands the interest of strangers. In these letters, Wharton does. And for the rest of the time, she is an incisive guide through the glories and vicissitudes of her own amazing life. She knew everyone, from Henry James, Bernard Berenson and Teddy Roosevelt to Sinclair Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Kenneth Clark. She usually remained mute about her generosities with money and time, but the helpful annotating of Biographer Lewis and his wife Nancy fills in many gaps. She read extensively and exhaustively in a number of languages...
...herself "just a little folkabilly songwriter," and K.T. Oslin, who surprised everyone -- herself most of all -- by winning a Grammy in March for her hit RCA single 80's Ladies. It was from her first album, and Oslin is 46. "It's dreamlike," says Oslin, a sometime actress. "I feel like I'm playing the role of a country singer. But I'd rather be starting now than ending now." Both women were brought up in Texas; however, where Oslin's writing and performing are foursquare, Griffith is delicate but deliberate. She started writing in grade school, she says, "mainly...
...concerned. It is going to be tough. Dukakis . . . has never been exposed to this level of American politics. And it is my thesis that therefore he has never been tested. Every little frailty is in focus. I've been there. I feel quite relaxed about it. ((But)) Dukakis is not prepared for what he is going to get into...
What seems to be troubling the people who are concerned about Bubbacide is not a nostalgia for watery greens as a main course or for men wearing sheets; it's that they think there is nothing to replace what used to feel like Georgia. They wonder whether the point of being liberated from the South really was to live in someplace that isn't anywhere at all. Late in the evening, after a few drinks, they are likely to say that Atlanta has no soul. I asked the novelist Pat Conroy, who lives there, why there is no modern novel...