Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ensconced in a gold-and-white Hollywood living room surrounded by nude portraits and nude statues of herself, complacent Mae ends her autobiography with a scatter of advice for her sisters. She recommends that they find a man of 40 (by then "he has matured and ripened") with plenty of money ("in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone"), who is not too expert (the ideal "is the man a woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula...
...haul is more a burden than a bargain. Unlike gold or jewelry, a painting cannot be converted into something else. Art "fences'' are nonexistent; art dealers, no matter how covetous they may be, cannot afford to handle such hot merchandise. In the old days, thieves could find ready buyers (if not patrons) among wealthy aristocrats. But today, chances are slim that the thieves were hired by one such determined art lover. "That stuff will be hot for the next 100 years," said Toronto Inspector John Gillespie, as police dispatched photographs of the stolen masterpieces throughout the world...
...island is a combination of boredom and premonition of disaster. The disaster is not long in coming; half a dozen enlisted men and Sulgrave are the only survivors. It is then that the Negroes get a grisly, ironic revenge on the commander. Looking for his body, they find only the head and shoulders. Into the improvised coffin go arms and legs, black and white, sufficient to provide a corpse for the military funeral Commander Hake is to get back in the States...
...probes on, it is not one Sebastian Knight who emerges, but a different Sebastian for every relationship. The gist of the secret that the half brother learns is "that the soul is but a manner of being-not a constant state-that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations...
Anyone who found the first 75 pages of Doctor Zhivago heavy going will find The Last Summer no easier. It is told in the same crosscutting flashbacks, as if unrelated strips of film were spliced together to achieve a unity of mood rather than magic. The time is 1916, and Russia is in the midst of war. The hero, Serezha, has come to visit his sister, and soon falls asleep. In a kind of Proustian reverie, he sleepwalks through events of the past-particularly through the fatefully serene prewar summer of 1914, which the young Pasternak nostalgically calls "that last...