Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely child. Once a tornado whirled her from her parents' porch in Friend, Neb. to a nearby cow pasture. "I was somewhat worried by the cows," she recalls. "I found the storms of nature friendlier than the whims of living creatures." Her teacher noted that "she always expects people to like her." Anna Louise Strong soon discovered that a lot of people did not like her. Says she: "I became very friendly with...
Turning from God and the stars, she looked for other deities. She flung herself into the patronizing worship of the proletariat which came to be fashionable in the early 20th Century. Once she told a friend: "I want to find someone who will tell me just what I must do about everything, and then I will do it." When revolution came to Russia, Anna Louise Strong found her master. Said she: "For me the Party combines all the early gods of my youth...
...inevitably, the billboards have their sordid patches. One recent ad read: "Well-situated, well-educated lady, 45 years old, is looking for cultivated girl friend who must be blonde with full figure...
...passion, and strained for it, but could seldom find it. Later he was to admit that "I only know how to tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with you than be on the right side even with the whole Academy-and [Anatole] France would, too. Indeed, it would be delightful to make a slip with you." His passion for the Creole never went beyond an "amour...
...takes my life with her," he wrote of his mother in the most passionate letters included in this book. In revealing words he told a friend: "To Mother I was always four years old." Proust began to write with the dedication of a man possessed. Rarely did he leave his dark, stuffy room, and when he did it was to make midnight forays into hotels and parties to watch for the quirks of behavior and appearance of the people with whom he loaded his long novel...