Word: frail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berryman adds a great deal to the novel. It's a rare piece, full of quaint anecdotes of their shared careers at Princeton and the University of Minnesota. Bellow knew the writer as a man first--as the man whose gruff arrogance was only a cover up for the frail alcoholic who was unable to manage his life and finally had to take refuge in hospitals. Bellow's sensitivity reaches even deeper. For he knew John Berryman the poet as well: the "Huffy Henry...wicked and away" of the Dream Songs, the narcissistic writer in Love and Fame "obsessed with...
Alan suffers from frail misconceptions of himself and love and fame. His emotions play second fiddle to his career, even while he's in the hospital. His career of course, led to drink; his wives left him because of alcohol. The tension builds within as Alan tries to cope with his own identity in his work, his public life, his ultimate search for some sense of immortality. Like a boy, who, lost in the funhouse, finds himself confronted with a hundred ghastly images in the hall of mirrors, he can only cry in self-pity and disillusionment. His rage...
...green." So the Nationalists have planted 70 million seedling trees, mostly Australian pine. They have since added bananas, mangoes, pears and apples. There are fields of corn and sorghum that help to make the island's 62,000 civilian inhabitants self-sufficient. The island even has a frail industrial base, a pottery plant and a liquor distillery. "For the soldiers, we have a lot of peanut candy shops and billiard parlors," a guide remarks...
...Canadian orphan named Alfred Bessette, better known as "Brother André, the miracle man of Mount Royal." As a religious brother, Bessette served for 40 years as doorkeeper and handyman of Notre Dame College, a boys' school at the foot of the hill. He was humble, devout and frail, a sufferer from chronic dyspepsia. But he had, it is claimed, miraculous healing powers...
Despite her age, it is still clear what Photographer Cecil Beaton meant when he described Mrs. Luce as "most drenchingly beautiful"-she still has a great, lingering beauty, with a near perfect profile. Several unsuccessful operations for double cataracts have left her somewhat frail, however, and she finds that she is usually too tired these days to attend the theater, one of her great loves. But she was tempted to make an exception-and break her rule about her own first nights-to attend the opening of The Women. She finally decided against it. "It will probably be my last...