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...CURIOUS CASE OF SIDD FINCH...
...woman of action. In fact, the writer was a great solitary who tried to work out every moral conflict at her desk, in tales, letters or learned analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects of a brief, piercing look at Eros from the inside. Scrutinizing the relation of morality to marriage, she concluded that the two are parallel but rarely converge, and that George Bernard Shaw was right when he said that confusing them had done "more to destroy the conscience...
...Once you start to understand the game it becomes very challenging. It's very intellectual and each shot requires strategy," emphasized Finch...
...Harvard final pitted Anderson and Yearsley against senior Captain Peter Finch and his partner, David Lamarre...
...transformed them, finally, into a melody of loss, something terrible and sad. The financial failure of her farm and the death of Finch Hatton at about the same time drove her back to Europe. But like the "civilizing" of Africa, personal setbacks symbolized to her a much larger loss, that of romantic idealism in the modern world. Her consolation was that in this defeat, some men like Finch Hatton, some women like herself, were given a last opportunity to display a noble quality she also fancied was fast disappearing: gallantry in the face of crushing odds...